Building analytical platform to enable device fabrication

ABSTRACT

This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for building an intelligent analytical platform to enable a device fabrication in material science. Material engineers and design engineers may face various challenges with existing knowledge, as more time and efforts are required in finding a relevant knowledge from the existing knowledge, mainly due to the unstructured form, for fabricating new devices. The present disclosure solves the technical problem of finding the relevant knowledge out of the existing knowledge, in a structured form by building an analytical platform. The unstructured format of the existing knowledge of the fabrication process is transformed into a structured format in terms of operation sequence knowledge graphs, using a set of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models, and a knowledge representation model of the fabrication process. The structured format of the existing knowledge is hierarchically arranged to build the analytical platform.

PRIORITY CLAIM

This U.S. patent application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 to:Indian Patent Application No. 202021021081, filed on 19 May 2020. Theentire contents of the aforementioned application are incorporatedherein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The disclosure herein generally relates to knowledge processing inmaterial science, and, more particularly, to methods and systems forbuilding an intelligent analytical platform to enable a devicefabrication in material science.

BACKGROUND

In material science, functional materials that host different materialsincluding inorganic materials, organic materials and hybrid materials,form a basis for fabricating different type of devices (herein afterreferred as a ‘device fabrication’) such as solar cells, lithium ionbatteries, and so on. During the device fabrication, more than onefunctional material may be subjected to various operations such ascleaning, heating and so on, based on a fabrication procedure, underspecific operating conditions, before finally being characterized forobtaining desired performance of the device. A large amount of knowledgerelated to the device fabrication of each device is available inliterature including publications, reports, documents, experimentalthesis, and so on. However, most of the existing knowledge related tothe device fabrication is present in an unstructured form. Materialengineers and design engineers may face various challenges with theexisting knowledge, as more time and efforts are required to findrelevant knowledge from the existing knowledge, mainly due to theunstructured form, for fabricating new devices.

SUMMARY

Embodiments of the present disclosure present technological improvementsas solutions to one or more of the above-mentioned technical problemsrecognized by the inventors in conventional systems.

In an aspect, a processor-implemented method for building an analyticalplatform to enable a device fabrication is provided. The methodincluding the steps of: receiving (i) a device category associated witha device fabrication, (ii) one or more device fabrication knowledgedocuments associated with the device category from a device fabricationknowledge repository, wherein each device fabrication knowledge documentcomprises a plurality of document paragraphs, wherein each documentparagraph comprises one or more paragraph sentences, and each paragraphsentence comprises a plurality of paragraph sentence words;pre-processing each device fabrication knowledge document of the one ormore device fabrication knowledge documents, to obtain: (i) a pluralityof pre-processed document paragraphs, in a plain text format, (ii) asection header for each pre-processed document paragraph of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, wherein eachpre-processed document paragraph comprises a plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences, and wherein each pre-processed paragraph sentencecomprises a plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentence words;identifying one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs out of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, by a trained fabricationprocedure paragraph classification model, using the section header foreach pre-processed document paragraph of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, wherein each pre-processed document paragraph ofthe plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs is a fabricationprocedure paragraph, if the pre-processed document paragraph comprisesinformation related to a fabrication procedure; identifying one or moreentities, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,by a trained named entity identification model, wherein the plurality ofentities are associated with a plurality of predefined concepts relatedto the fabrication procedure; identifying (i) one or more firstpredefined relations out of a first set of predefined relations, and(ii) one or more second predefined relations out of a second set ofpredefined relations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedureparagraphs, by (i) a trained relation identification model, and (ii) aset of predefined pattern expressions, respectively, using the one ormore entities identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence;identifying a device fabrication procedure for each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,by a rule based unsupervised algorithm, using the one or more entitiesidentified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph, wherein the device fabrication procedure for eachfabrication procedure paragraph, comprises a sequence of operations;generating an operation sequence knowledge graph for each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,using (i) the one or more entities identified for each pre-processedparagraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, (ii) (a) the one or more firstpredefined relations out of the first set of predefined relations, and(b) the one or more second predefined relations out of the second set ofpredefined relations, identified for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, and (iii) the device fabricationprocedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, using a graph database tool; andbuilding the analytical platform to enable the device fabrication, usingthe operation sequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedureparagraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, in agraph search engine.

In another aspect, a system for building the analytical platform toenable the device fabrication is provided. The system includes: a memorystoring instructions; one or more Input/Output (I/O) interfaces; and oneor more hardware processors coupled to the memory via the one or moreI/O interfaces, wherein the one or more hardware processors areconfigured by the instructions to: receive (i) a device categoryassociated with a device fabrication, (ii) one or more devicefabrication knowledge documents associated with the device category froma device fabrication knowledge repository, wherein each devicefabrication knowledge document comprises a plurality of documentparagraphs, wherein each document paragraph comprises one or moreparagraph sentences, and each paragraph sentence comprises a pluralityof paragraph sentence words; pre-process each device fabricationknowledge document of the one or more device fabrication knowledgedocuments, to obtain: (i) a plurality of pre-processed documentparagraphs, in a plain text format, (ii) a section header for eachpre-processed document paragraph of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, wherein each pre-processed document paragraphcomprises a plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences, and whereineach pre-processed paragraph sentence comprises a plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentence words; identify one or more fabricationprocedure paragraphs out of the plurality of pre-processed documentparagraphs, by a trained fabrication procedure paragraph classificationmodel, using the section header for each pre-processed documentparagraph of the plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, whereineach pre-processed document paragraph of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs is a fabrication procedure paragraph, if thepre-processed document paragraph comprises information related to afabrication procedure; identify one or more entities, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, by a trained namedentity identification model, wherein the plurality of entities areassociated with a plurality of predefined concepts related to thefabrication procedure; identify (i) one or more first predefinedrelations out of a first set of predefined relations, and (ii) one ormore second predefined relations out of a second set of predefinedrelations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,by (i) a trained relation identification model, and (ii) a set ofpredefined pattern expressions, respectively, using the one or moreentities identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence; identifydevice fabrication procedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph ofthe one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, by a rule basedunsupervised algorithm, using the one or more entities identified foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedureparagraph, wherein the device fabrication procedure for each fabricationprocedure paragraph, comprises a sequence of operations; generate anoperation sequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedureparagraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, using (i)the one or more entities identified for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, (ii) (a) the one or more firstpredefined relations out of the first set of predefined relations, and(b) the one or more second predefined relations out of the second set ofpredefined relations, identified for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, and (iii) the device fabricationprocedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, using a graph database tool, and buildthe analytical platform to enable the device fabrication, using theoperation sequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedureparagraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, in agraph search engine.

In yet another aspect, there is provided a computer program productcomprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having a computerreadable program embodied therein, wherein the computer readableprogram, when executed on a computing device, causes the computingdevice to: receive (i) a device category associated with a devicefabrication, (ii) one or more device fabrication knowledge documentsassociated with the device category from a device fabrication knowledgerepository, wherein each device fabrication knowledge document comprisesa plurality of document paragraphs, wherein each document paragraphcomprises one or more paragraph sentences, and each paragraph sentencecomprises a plurality of paragraph sentence words; pre-process eachdevice fabrication knowledge document of the one or more devicefabrication knowledge documents, to obtain: (i) a plurality ofpre-processed document paragraphs, in a plain text format, (ii) asection header for each pre-processed document paragraph of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, wherein eachpre-processed document paragraph comprises a plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences, and wherein each pre-processed paragraph sentencecomprises a plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentence words;identify one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs out of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, by a trained fabricationprocedure paragraph classification model, using the section header foreach pre-processed document paragraph of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, wherein each pre-processed document paragraph ofthe plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs is a fabricationprocedure paragraph, if the pre-processed document paragraph comprisesinformation related to a fabrication procedure; identify one or moreentities, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,by a trained named entity identification model, wherein the plurality ofentities are associated with a plurality of predefined concepts relatedto the fabrication procedure; identify (i) one or more first predefinedrelations out of a first set of predefined relations, and (ii) one ormore second predefined relations out of a second set of predefinedrelations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,by (i) a trained relation identification model, and (ii) a set ofpredefined pattern expressions, respectively, using the one or moreentities identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence; identifydevice fabrication procedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph ofthe one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, by a rule basedunsupervised algorithm, using the one or more entities identified foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedureparagraph, wherein the device fabrication procedure for each fabricationprocedure paragraph, comprises a sequence of operations; generate anoperation sequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedureparagraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, using (i)the one or more entities identified for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, (ii) (a) the one or more firstpredefined relations out of the first set of predefined relations, and(b) the one or more second predefined relations out of the second set ofpredefined relations, identified for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, and (iii) the device fabricationprocedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, using a graph database tool, and buildthe analytical platform to enable the device fabrication, using theoperation sequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedureparagraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, in agraph search engine.

In an embodiment, the trained fabrication procedure paragraphclassification model is obtained by: receiving (i) a plurality oftraining document paragraphs associated with the device category, in theplain text format, (ii) the section header for each training documentparagraph of the plurality of training document paragraphs, and (iii) anannotation class for each training document paragraph of the pluralityof training document paragraphs, wherein each training documentparagraph comprises a plurality of training document paragraphsentences, and each training document paragraph sentence comprises aplurality of training document paragraph sentence words, and wherein theannotation class for each training document paragraph is one of: (a) thefabrication procedure paragraph, and (b) a non-fabrication procedureparagraph; obtaining: (a) a paragraph text vector, (b) a dictionaryfeature vector, and (c) a section header feature vector, for eachtraining document paragraph of the plurality of training documentparagraphs; and training a first bi-directional long short term memory(BiLSTM) network with: (i) (a) the paragraph text vector, (b) thedictionary feature vector, and (c) the section header feature vector,for each training document paragraph, at a time, of the plurality oftraining document paragraphs, and (ii) the annotation class for eachtraining document paragraph of the plurality of training documentparagraphs, to obtain the trained fabrication procedure paragraphclassification model, wherein training the first BiLSTM network witheach training document paragraph comprises: passing the paragraph textvector corresponding to the training document paragraph, as an input toa bi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) layer of the firstBiLSTM network, to learn a hidden state of a first training documentparagraph sentence word and the hidden state of a last training documentparagraph sentence word, present in the training document paragraph;concatenating the dictionary feature vector and the section headerfeature vector, corresponding to the training document paragraph, withthe hidden state of the first training document paragraph sentence wordand the hidden state of the last training document paragraph sentenceword, present in the training document paragraph, to obtain aconcatenated feature vector of the training document paragraph; passingthe concatenated feature vector of the training document paragraph to asoft-max layer of the first BiLSTM network to obtain a predictedprobability value of the training document paragraph; minimizing abinary cross-entropy loss function of the first BiLSTM network, definedbetween the (i) the predicted probability value of the training documentparagraph, and (ii) an actual probability value of the training documentparagraph, wherein the actual probability value of the training documentparagraph is defined from the annotation class corresponding to thetraining document paragraph; and optimizing weights of the first BiLSTMnetwork, based on the binary cross-entropy loss function of the firstBiLSTM network.

In an embodiment, the paragraph text vector for each training documentparagraph comprises an embedding for each training document paragraphsentence word of the plurality of training document paragraph sentencewords corresponding to each training document paragraph sentence of theplurality of training document paragraph sentences corresponding to thetraining document paragraph; the dictionary feature vector for eachtraining document paragraph is obtained by: (i) defining an initialdictionary feature vector with a plurality of predefined keywords, and(ii) assigning a Boolean value for each predefined keyword of theplurality of predefined keywords defined in the initial dictionaryfeature vector, based on presence of the predefined keyword in thetraining document paragraph; and the section header feature vector foreach training document paragraph of the plurality of training documentparagraphs, is obtained by: (i) defining an initial section headerfeature vector with a plurality of predefined section headers, and (ii)assigning the Boolean value for each predefined section header of theplurality of predefined section headers defined in the initial sectionheader feature vector, based on matching of the predefined sectionheader with the section header of the training document paragraph.

In an embodiment, the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs outof the plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, are identified,by the trained fabrication procedure paragraph classification model,using the section header for each pre-processed document paragraph ofthe plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, by: obtaining: (a) aparagraph text vector, (b) a dictionary feature vector, and (c) asection header feature vector, for each pre-processed document paragraphof the plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs; passing: (a) theparagraph text vector, (b) the dictionary feature vector, and (c) thesection header feature vector, for each pre-processed document paragraphof the plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, to the trainedfabrication procedure paragraph classification model, to obtain apredicted probability value for each pre-processed document paragraph ofthe plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs; and identifying theone or more fabrication procedure paragraphs out of the plurality ofpre-processed document paragraphs, based on the predicted probabilityvalue corresponding to each pre-processed document paragraph of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs.

In an embodiment, the paragraph text vector for each pre-processeddocument paragraph comprises an embedding for each pre-processedparagraph sentence word of the plurality of pre-processed paragraphsentence words corresponding to each pre-processed paragraph sentence ofthe plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences corresponding to thepre-processed document paragraph; the dictionary feature vector for eachpre-processed document paragraph is obtained by: (i) defining an initialdictionary feature vector with a plurality of predefined keywords, and(ii) assigning a Boolean value for each predefined keyword of theplurality of predefined keywords defined in the initial dictionaryfeature vector, based on presence of the predefined keyword in thepre-processed document paragraph; and the section header feature vectorfor each pre-processed document paragraph is obtained by: (i) definingan initial section header feature vector with a plurality of predefinedsection headers, and (ii) assigning the Boolean value for eachpredefined section header of the plurality of predefined section headersdefined in the initial section header feature vector, based on matchingof the predefined section header with the section header of thepre-processed document paragraph.

In an embodiment, the trained named entity identification model isobtained by: receiving (i) a plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraphs, wherein each training fabrication procedure paragraphcomprises a plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentences, and each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentencecomprises a plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence words, (ii) an entity annotation for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word of the plurality of trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present in each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of each training fabricationprocedure paragraph of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraphs; obtaining: (a) a gazetteer feature vector, (b) a casingfeature vector, (c) a part of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d) acharacter embedding vector, and (e) a word embedding, for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of the plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present in eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraphs; and training a second bi-directional long shortterm memory (BiLSTM) network with (i) (a) the gazetteer feature vector,(b) the casing feature vector, (c) the part of speech (PoS) featurevector, (d) the character embedding vector, and (e) the word embedding,for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of theplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence wordspresent in each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence, at atime, of each training fabrication procedure paragraph of the pluralityof training fabrication procedure paragraphs, and (ii) the entityannotation for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceword of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence words present in each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence of each training fabrication procedure paragraph of theplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs, to obtain thetrained named entity identification model, wherein training the secondBiLSTM network with each training fabrication procedure paragraphcomprises: concatenating (a) the gazetteer feature vector, (b) thecasing feature vector, (c) the part of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d)the character embedding vector, and (e) the word embedding,corresponding to each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceword, to obtain a concatenated feature vector for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of the plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present in eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph; passing the concatenated feature vectorfor each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of theplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence wordspresent in each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph, to a bi-directional long shortterm memory (BiLSTM) layer of the second BiLSTM network, to learn ahidden state for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceword of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence words present in each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence of the training fabrication procedure paragraph; passing thehidden state for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceword of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence words present in each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence of the training fabrication procedure paragraph, to aconditional random field (CRF) layer of the second BiLSTM network, toobtain a predicted probability distribution, for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the training fabricationprocedure paragraph; maximizing a probability function of the secondBiLSTM network, defined based on (i) the predicted probabilitydistribution, for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceof the training fabrication procedure paragraph, and (i) an actualprobability distribution for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of the training fabrication procedure paragraph,wherein the actual probability distribution for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the training fabricationprocedure paragraph, is defined from the entity annotation for eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of the pluralityof training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present ineach training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph; and optimizing weights of the secondBiLSTM network, based on the probability function of the second BiLSTMnetwork.

In an embodiment, the gazetteer feature vector for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word, is obtained by: (i)defining an initial gazetteer feature vector with a plurality ofpredefined concepts, and (ii) assigning a Boolean value for eachpredefined concept of the plurality of predefined concepts defined inthe initial gazetteer feature vector, based on association of thepredefined concept with the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word; the casing feature vector for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word is a predefined casing type of one ormore predefined casing types, associated with the training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word; the PoS feature vector for eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word is a predefinedPoS type of one or more predefined PoS types, associated with thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word; the characterembedding vector for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word is an array of character embeddings associated with eachcharacter present in the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word; and the word embedding for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word is an embedding of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word.

In an embodiment, the one or more entities out of the plurality ofentities, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,are identified, using the trained named entity identification model, by:obtaining: (a) a gazetteer feature vector, (b) a casing feature vector,(c) a part of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d) a character embeddingvector, and (e) a word embedding, for each pre-processed paragraphsentence word of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentence wordspresent in each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs;concatenating (a) the gazetteer feature vector, (b) the casing featurevector, (c) the part of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d) the characterembedding vector, and (e) the word embedding, corresponding to eachpre-processed paragraph sentence word to obtain a concatenated featurevector for each pre-processed paragraph sentence word of the pluralityof each pre-processed paragraph sentence words present in eachpre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs; passing theconcatenated feature vector for each pre-processed paragraph sentenceword of the plurality of each pre-processed paragraph sentence wordspresent in each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,to the trained named entity identification model, to obtain a predictedprobability distribution for each pre-processed paragraph sentence ofthe plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph; and identifying the one or moreentities out of the plurality of entities, for each pre-processedparagraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, based on the predicted probabilitydistribution for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the pluralityof pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph.

In an embodiment, the gazetteer feature vector for each pre-processedparagraph sentence word, is obtained by: (i) defining an initialgazetteer feature vector with a plurality of predefined concepts, and(ii) assigning a Boolean value for each predefined concept of theplurality of predefined concepts defined in the initial gazetteerfeature vector, based on association of the predefined concept with thepre-processed paragraph sentence word; the casing feature vector foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence word is a predefined casing typeof one or more predefined casing types, associated with thepre-processed paragraph sentence word; the PoS feature vector for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence word is a predefined PoS type of one ormore predefined PoS types, associated with the pre-processed paragraphsentence word; the character embedding vector for pre-processedparagraph sentence word is an array of character embeddings associatedwith each character present in the pre-processed paragraph sentenceword; and the word embedding for each pre-processed paragraph sentenceword is an embedding of the pre-processed paragraph sentence word.

In an embodiment, the trained relation identification model is obtainedby: receiving (i) one or more entities identified for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of a plurality of trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentences associated with each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraphs; (ii) a predefined relation annotation out of thefirst set of predefined relation annotations, for each predefined entitypair out of the one or more entities identified for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the plurality of trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentences associated with each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraphs; extracting (i) one or more entity-level featurevectors and (ii) one or more entity-pair-level feature vectors, for eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentences associated with eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph, wherein (i) the one or moreentity-level feature vectors for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence, comprises a first set of features associated witheach predefined entity of the one or more entities identified for thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence, and (ii) the one ormore entity-pair-level feature vectors for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence, comprises a second set of featuresassociated with each predefined entity pair out of the one or moreentities identified for the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence; and training a hybrid neural network with: (i) one or moreentity-level feature vectors and (ii) one or more entity-pair-levelfeature vectors, for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentences associated with each training fabrication procedure paragraph,to obtain the trained relation identification model, wherein trainingthe hybrid neural network for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence, comprises: passing, (i) the one or more entity-levelfeature vectors and (ii) the one or more entity-pair-level featurevectors, for the training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence, tothe hybrid neural network, to obtain a predicted probabilitydistribution for each predefined entity pair out of the one or moreentities identified for the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence; minimizing a categorical cross-entropy loss function of thehybrid neural network, defined between (i) the predicted probabilitydistribution for each predefined entity pair out of the one or moreentities identified for the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence, and (ii) an actual probability distribution for eachpredefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identified forthe training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence, wherein theactual probability distribution for each predefined entity pair isdefined from the predefined relation annotation corresponding to thepredefined entity pair; and optimizing weights of the hybrid neuralnetwork, based on the categorical cross-entropy loss function of thehybrid neural network.

In an embodiment, the one or more first predefined relations out of thefirst set of predefined relations, for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, are identified, by the trainedrelation identification model, using the one or more entities identifiedfor each pre-processed paragraph sentence, by: extracting (i) one ormore entity-level feature vectors and (ii) one or more entity-pair-levelfeature vectors, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedureparagraphs, wherein (i) the one or more entity-level feature vectors foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence, comprises a first set of featuresassociated with each predefined entity of the one or more entitiesidentified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence, and (ii) the oneor more entity-pair-level feature vectors for each pre-processedparagraph sentence, comprises a second set of features associated witheach predefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identifiedfor the pre-processed paragraph sentence; passing, (i) the one or moreentity-level feature vectors and (ii) the one or more entity-pair-levelfeature vectors, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph, to the trained relationidentification model, to obtain a predicted probability distribution foreach predefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identifiedfor each pre-processed paragraph sentence; and identifying the one ormore first predefined relations out of the first set of predefinedrelations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph, based on the predicted probability distribution foreach predefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identifiedfor the pre-processed paragraph sentence.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description andthe following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory onlyand are not restrictive of the invention, as claimed.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute apart of this disclosure, illustrate exemplary embodiments and, togetherwith the description, serve to explain the disclosed principles:

FIG. 1 is an exemplary block diagram of a system for building ananalytical platform to enable a device fabrication, in accordance withsome embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating modules of the systemof FIG. 1 for building the analytical platform to enable the devicefabrication, in accordance with some embodiments of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 3A through FIG. 3B illustrate an exemplary flow diagrams of aprocessor-implemented method for building the analytical platform toenable the device fabrication, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a first bi-directional long short termmemory (BiLSTM) network, to obtain a trained fabrication procedureparagraph classification model, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary knowledgerepresentation meta model for building the analytical platform to enablethe device fabrication, in accordance with some embodiments of thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a second BiLSTM network, to obtain atrained named entity identification model, in accordance with someembodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 illustrates one or more entities identified for an exemplarypre-processed paragraph sentence, by the trained named entityidentification model, in accordance with some embodiments of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a hybrid neural network, to obtain atrained relation identification model, in accordance with someembodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 9A illustrates one or more first predefined relations identifiedfor the exemplary pre-processed paragraph sentence, by the trainedrelation identification model, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 9B illustrates one or more second predefined relations identifiedfor the exemplary pre-processed paragraph sentence, by a set ofpredefined pattern expressions, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 9C illustrates the one or more first predefined relations and theone or more second predefined relations, identified for the exemplarypre-processed paragraph sentence, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 10 illustrates a device fabrication procedure identified for anexemplary fabrication procedure paragraph, in accordance with someembodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 11 illustrates an operation sequence knowledge graph for theexemplary fabrication procedure paragraph, in accordance with someembodiments of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

Exemplary embodiments are described with reference to the accompanyingdrawings. In the figures, the left-most digit(s) of a reference numberidentifies the figure in which the reference number first appears.Wherever convenient, the same reference numbers are used throughout thedrawings to refer to the same or like parts. While examples and featuresof disclosed principles are described herein, modifications,adaptations, and other implementations are possible without departingfrom the scope of the disclosed embodiments.

Conventional approaches for screening and designing of the functionalmaterials used for fabricating different type of devices ((herein afterreferred as a ‘device fabrication’) such as solar cells, lithium ionbatteries and so on, may undergo a combination of tedious experimentaland theoretical operations and characterization. In-silico techniquessuch as computational material science, and machine learning basedproperty prediction models are being leveraged to design the functionalmaterials. However, the in-silico techniques may require excessiveexperimental validation in order to design the functional materials withdesired properties.

Moreover, material engineers and design engineers often need guidance onhow other similar devices have been previously fabricated (defined as‘fabrication process), including, respective various operations such ascooling, heating, and so on, a sequence of operations, specificoperating conditions, operating methods, and so on, while fabricating anew device. An abundant knowledge related to the fabrication process foreach device is existing in an unstructured format, in the form ofliterature including publications, reports, documents, experimentalthesis, and so on. Hence, the material engineers and the designengineers may need to spend more time and efforts in order to findrelevant knowledge out of the existing knowledge for fabricating the newdevices.

The present disclosure herein provides methods and systems that solvesthe technical problem of finding the relevant knowledge out of theexisting knowledge, in a structured form, for fabricating differentdevices, by building an analytical platform. The analytical platform isa knowledge analytical engine that is built for each device such assolar cells, lithium ion batteries, and so on, using the existingknowledge of the fabrication process. The unstructured format of theexisting knowledge of the fabrication process is transformed into astructured format using a set of artificial intelligence (AI) andmachine learning models, and a knowledge representation model of thefabrication process. The structured format of the existing knowledge ishierarchically arranged in the analytical platform. In an embodiment,the analytical platform includes but are not limited to a graph searchplatform, a knowledge query engine, a question-answer (QA) platform, avirtual chatbot, and so on.

Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to FIG. 1 throughFIG. 11 , where similar reference characters denote correspondingfeatures consistently throughout the figures, there are shown preferredembodiments and these embodiments are described in the context of thefollowing exemplary systems and/or methods.

FIG. 1 is an exemplary block diagram of a system 100 for building theanalytical platform to enable the device fabrication, in accordance withsome embodiments of the present disclosure. In an embodiment, the system100 includes or is otherwise in communication with one or more hardwareprocessors 104, communication interface device(s) or input/output (I/O)interface(s) 106, and one or more data storage devices or memory 102operatively coupled to the one or more hardware processors 104. The oneor more hardware processors 104, the memory 102, and the I/Ointerface(s) 106 may be coupled to a system bus 108 or a similarmechanism.

The I/O interface(s) 106 may include a variety of software and hardwareinterfaces, for example, a web interface, a graphical user interface,and the like. The I/O interface(s) 106 may include a variety of softwareand hardware interfaces, for example, interfaces for peripheraldevice(s), such as a keyboard, a mouse, an external memory, a pluralityof sensor devices, a printer and the like. Further, the I/O interface(s)106 may enable the system 100 to communicate with other devices, such asweb servers and external databases.

The I/O interface(s) 106 can facilitate multiple communications within awide variety of networks and protocol types, including wired networks,for example, local area network (LAN), cable, etc., and wirelessnetworks, such as Wireless LAN (WLAN), cellular, or satellite. For thepurpose, the I/O interface(s) 106 may include one or more ports forconnecting a number of computing systems with one another or to anotherserver computer. Further, the I/O interface(s) 106 may include one ormore ports for connecting a number of devices to one another or toanother server.

The one or more hardware processors 104 may be implemented as one ormore microprocessors, microcomputers, microcontrollers, digital signalprocessors, central processing units, state machines, logic circuitries,and/or any devices that manipulate signals based on operationalinstructions. Among other capabilities, the one or more hardwareprocessors 104 are configured to fetch and execute computer-readableinstructions stored in the memory 102.

The memory 102 may include any computer-readable medium known in the artincluding, for example, volatile memory, such as static random accessmemory (SRAM) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), and/ornon-volatile memory, such as read only memory (ROM), erasableprogrammable ROM, flash memories, hard disks, optical disks, andmagnetic tapes. In an embodiment, the memory 102 includes a plurality ofmodules 102 a and a repository 102 b for storing data processed,received, and generated by one or more of the plurality of modules 102a. The plurality of modules 102 a may include routines, programs,objects, components, data structures, and so on, which performparticular tasks or implement particular abstract data types.

The plurality of modules 102 a may include programs or computer-readableinstructions or coded instructions that supplement applications orfunctions performed by the system 100. The plurality of modules 102 amay also be used as, signal processor(s), state machine(s), logiccircuitries, and/or any other device or component that manipulatessignals based on operational instructions. Further, the plurality ofmodules 102 a can be used by hardware, by computer-readable instructionsexecuted by the one or more hardware processors 104, or by a combinationthereof. In an embodiment, the plurality of modules 102 a can includevarious sub-modules (not shown in FIG. 1 ). Further, the memory 102 mayinclude information pertaining to input(s)/output(s) of each stepperformed by the processor(s) 104 of the system 100 and methods of thepresent disclosure.

The repository 102 b may include a database or a data engine. Further,the repository 102 b amongst other things, may serve as a database forstoring the data that is processed, received, or generated as a resultof the execution of the plurality of modules 102 a. Although therepository 102 b is shown internal to the system 100, it will be notedthat, in alternate embodiments, the repository 102 b can also beimplemented external to the system 100, where the repository 102 b maybe stored within an external database (not shown in FIG. 1 )communicatively coupled to the system 100. The data contained withinsuch external database may be periodically updated. For example, newdata may be added into the external database and/or existing data may bemodified and/or non-useful data may be deleted from the externaldatabase. In one example, the data may be stored in an external system,such as a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory and aRelational Database Management System (RDBMS). In another embodiment,the data stored in the repository 102 b may be distributed between thesystem 100 and the external database.

Referring collectively to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3A through FIG. 3B, componentsand functionalities of the system 100 are described in accordance withan example embodiment of the present disclosure. For example, FIG. 2 isan exemplary block diagram illustrating modules 200 of the system 100 ofFIG. 1 for building the analytical platform to enable the devicefabrication, in accordance with some embodiments of the presentdisclosure. The modules 200 of FIG. 2 are the one or more hardwareprocessors 104 of FIG. 1 , however named as functional modules for easeof explanation. As shown in FIG. 2 , the modules 200 include a devicefabrication knowledge repository 202, a pre-processing unit 204, afabrication procedure paragraph classification unit 206, an entityidentification unit 208, a relation identification unit 210, a devicefabrication procedure extraction unit 212, an operation sequenceknowledge graph unit 214, an analytical platform unit 216, and a domainknowledge constraints repository 218. In an embodiment, the modules ofFIG. 2 except the device fabrication knowledge repository 202 and thedomain knowledge constraints repository 218, may be stored in theplurality of modules 102 a comprised in the memory 102 of the system100. In an embodiment, the device fabrication knowledge repository 202and the domain knowledge constraints repository 218 of FIG. 2 may bestored in the repository 102 b comprised in the memory 102 of the system100.

FIG. 3A through FIG. 3B illustrate an exemplary flow diagrams of theprocessor-implemented method 300 for building the analytical platform toenable the device fabrication, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present disclosure. Although steps of the method 300 includingprocess steps, method steps, techniques or the like may be described ina sequential order, such processes, methods and techniques may beconfigured to work in alternate orders. In other words, any sequence ororder of steps that may be described does not necessarily indicate arequirement that the steps be performed in that order. The steps ofprocesses described herein may be performed in any practical order.Further, some steps may be performed simultaneously.

At step 302 of the method 300, the one or more hardware processors 104of the system 100 are configured to receive: (i) a device categoryassociated with a device fabrication, (ii) one or more devicefabrication knowledge documents associated with the device category. Thedevice category defines a type of the device such as solar cells,lithium ion batteries, and so on. In an embodiment, the one or moredevice fabrication knowledge documents associated with the receiveddevice category are obtained from the device fabrication knowledgerepository 202.

In an embodiment, device fabrication knowledge repository 202 mayinclude a plurality of device fabrication knowledge documents (forexample, 1000 documents) describing the existing domain knowledgerelated to the fabrication process, for each device category. The one ormore device fabrication knowledge documents may be randomly obtainedfrom the plurality of device fabrication knowledge documents. Eachdevice fabrication knowledge document includes a plurality of documentparagraphs in the form of lines. Each document paragraph includes one ormore paragraph sentences, and further each paragraph sentence includes aplurality of paragraph sentence words. Each paragraph sentence wordincludes one or more characters.

In an embodiment, the plurality of device fabrication knowledgedocuments for each device category may be obtained automatically fromworld wide web (WWW) by configuring the system 100 with a set of searchstrings and keywords. In another embodiment, the plurality of devicefabrication knowledge documents for each device category may be obtainedmanually from various resources such as literature. The plurality ofdevice fabrication knowledge documents for each device category may bein various unstructured forms including presentations, papers, journals,project documents, conference documents, patents, and so on. Further,the plurality of device fabrication knowledge documents for each devicecategory may be present in various unstructured formats including, textdocuments, PDF, HTML, drawings, and so on.

At step 304 of the method 300, the one or more hardware processors 104of the system 100 are configured to pre-process each device fabricationknowledge document of the one or more device fabrication knowledgedocuments received at step 302 of the method, to obtain a plurality ofpre-processed document paragraphs, in a plain text format, through thepre-processing unit 204. The pre-processing unit 204 includes a set ofpre-processing tools including format conversion tools such as Cerminetool, image to text conversion tools, and so on. Each device fabricationknowledge document is processed using one or more pre-processing toolsout of the set of pre-processing tools.

In an embodiment, the pre-processing of each device fabricationknowledge document includes at least one of: (i) converting the documentformat to a text format, (ii) removing additional information such astitle, abstract, section header and so on, (iii) removing a documentparagraph that contains less than or equal to a predefined number oflines, (iv) removing the document paragraph that contains less than orequal to a predefined number of words per paragraph, (v) removingspecial characters such as asterisk (*), and (&), and so on, and (vi)removing page numbers, line numbers, references, and hyperlinks. In anembodiment, the predefined number of lines is ‘3’ and the predefinednumber of words is ‘2’.

Further, the pre-processing of each device fabrication knowledgedocument includes obtaining the section header for each documentparagraph present in the device fabrication knowledge document. In anembodiment, a predefined regular expression may be applied on eachdevice fabrication knowledge document to obtain the section header foreach document paragraph. In an embodiment, the predefined regularexpression may be: ‘(‘{circumflex over( )}(\d.)?([A-Z](\S+\s*){1,3})[.:\n]’)’.

Hence, after the pre-processing step, the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, in the plain text format, and the section headerfor each pre-processed document paragraph are obtained from the one ormore device fabrication knowledge documents. Each pre-processed documentparagraph includes a plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences.Each pre-processed paragraph sentence includes a plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentence words, where each pre-processedparagraph sentence word includes one or more characters.

At step 306 of the method 300, the one or more hardware processors 104of the system 100 are configured to identify one or more fabricationprocedure paragraphs out of the plurality of pre-processed documentparagraphs obtained at step 304 of the method 300, through thefabrication procedure paragraph classification unit 206. The fabricationprocedure paragraph classification unit 206 includes a trainedfabrication procedure paragraph classification model that is used toidentify the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, using thesection header obtained at step 304 of the method 300, for eachpre-processed document paragraph of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs. Each pre-processed document paragraph of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs is a fabricationprocedure paragraph, if the pre-processed document paragraph includesinformation related to the fabrication procedure. More specifically,each fabrication procedure paragraph includes at least some informationrelated to the fabrication process such as operations, the sequence ofoperations, the specific operating conditions, the operating methods,and so on. The pre-processed document paragraphs that do not contain theinformation related to the fabrication procedure are ignored.

In an embodiment, obtaining the trained fabrication procedure paragraphclassification model is described in the following steps. Firstly, (i) aplurality of training document paragraphs associated with the devicecategory received at step 302 of the method 300, in the plain textformat, (ii) the section header for each training document paragraph ofthe plurality of training document paragraphs, and (iii) an annotationclass for each training document paragraph of the plurality of trainingdocument paragraphs, are received. In an embodiment, the plurality oftraining document paragraphs and the section header for each trainingdocument paragraph may be obtained after applying the pre-processingstep as described at step 304 of the 300, on a set of device fabricationknowledge documents. In an embodiment, the set of device fabricationknowledge documents may be randomly selected from the device fabricationknowledge repository 202. In an embodiment, the device fabricationknowledge documents (i) present in the set of device fabricationknowledge documents and (ii) present in the one or more devicefabrication knowledge documents received at step 302 of the method 300,may be different.

Each training document paragraph includes a plurality of trainingdocument paragraph sentences. Each training document paragraph sentenceincludes a plurality of training document paragraph sentence words. Theannotation class for each training document paragraph is one of: (a) thefabrication procedure paragraph, and (b) a non-fabrication procedureparagraph. The fabrication procedure paragraph contains at least someinformation related to the fabrication process, whereas thenon-fabrication procedure paragraph does not contain any informationrelated to the fabrication procedure. Hence some of the trainingdocument paragraphs (positive samples) out of the plurality of trainingdocument paragraphs are fabrication procedure paragraphs, while theother training document paragraphs (negative samples) arenon-fabrication procedure paragraphs. Mathematically, the annotationclass is a Boolean class whose value is ‘1’, if the training documentparagraph is the fabrication procedure paragraph, and the value is ‘0’,if the training document paragraph is the non-fabrication procedureparagraph.

Next, (a) a paragraph text vector, (b) a dictionary feature vector, and(c) a section header feature vector, for each training documentparagraph of the plurality of training document paragraphs, areobtained. In an embodiment, the paragraph text vector for each trainingdocument paragraph includes an embedding for each training documentparagraph sentence word of the plurality of training document paragraphsentence words corresponding to each training document paragraphsentence of the plurality of training document paragraph sentencescorresponding to the training document paragraph. In an embodiment, afastText based embedding layer is used to obtain the embedding for eachtraining document paragraph sentence word.

In an embodiment, the dictionary feature vector for each trainingdocument paragraph is obtained by defining an initial dictionary featurevector of vector size m with a plurality of predefined keywords. Thevector size m equals to a number of the plurality predefined keywordsthat are present in a keyword dictionary. In an embodiment. The keyworddictionary includes the plurality of predefined keywords related to thefabrication procedure of the device category, such as operation names,parameter names, units, operating device names, frequently used chemicalnames, and synonyms thereof. Then, a Boolean value for each predefinedkeyword of the plurality of predefined keywords defined in the initialdictionary feature vector, is assigned based on presence of thepredefined keyword in the training document paragraph. For example, ifthe predefined keyword is present in the training document paragraph(matches with one of the training document paragraph sentence wordpresent in the training document paragraph), then the Boolean value ‘1’is assigned for the predefined keyword. If the predefined keyword is notpresent in the training document paragraph (not matches with any one ofthe training document paragraph sentence word present in the trainingdocument paragraph), then the Boolean value ‘0’ is assigned for thepredefined keyword.

In an embodiment, the section header feature vector for each trainingdocument paragraph is obtained by defining an initial section headerfeature vector of vector size n with a plurality of predefined sectionheaders. The vector size n equals to a number of the plurality ofpredefined section headers that are present in a section headersdictionary. In an embodiment, the section headers dictionary includespossible combinations of the section headers identified in theliterature. In an embodiment, the section headers may be obtained byapplying the regular expression described at step 304 of the method 300,on the plurality of device fabrication knowledge documents present inthe device fabrication knowledge repository 202. Then, the Boolean valuefor each predefined section header of the plurality of predefinedsection headers defined in the initial section header feature vector, isassigned based on matching of the predefined section header with thesection header of the training document paragraph. For example, if thepredefined section header matches with the section header of thetraining document paragraph, then the Boolean value ‘1’ is assigned tothe predefined section header. If the predefined section header is notmatching with the section header of the training document paragraph,then the Boolean value ‘0’ is assigned to the predefined section header.In an embodiment, the keyword dictionary and the section headersdictionary may be present in the domain knowledge constraints repository218.

Then, the trained fabrication procedure paragraph classification modelis obtained by training a first bi-directional long short term memory(BiLSTM) network with: (i) (a) the paragraph text vector, (b) thedictionary feature vector, and (c) the section header feature vector,for each training document paragraph, at a time, of the plurality oftraining document paragraphs, using (ii) the annotation class for eachtraining document paragraph of the plurality of training documentparagraphs. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the first bi-directional longshort term memory (BiLSTM) network, to obtain the trained fabricationprocedure paragraph classification model, in accordance with someembodiments of the present disclosure.

Training the first bi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM)network with: (i) (a) the paragraph text vector, (b) the dictionaryfeature vector, and (c) the section header feature vector, for eachtraining document paragraph, is explained below. Firstly, the paragraphtext vector corresponding to the training document paragraph, is passedas an input to a bi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) layer ofthe first BiLSTM network. The bi-directional long short term memory(BiLSTM) layer of the first BiLSTM network, learns a hidden state of afirst training document paragraph sentence word and the hidden state ofa last training document paragraph sentence word, present in thetraining document paragraph. Both the dictionary feature vector and thesection header feature vector, corresponding to the training documentparagraph, are concatenated with the hidden state of the first trainingdocument paragraph sentence word and the hidden state of the lasttraining document paragraph sentence word, to obtain a concatenatedfeature vector for the training document paragraph.

The concatenated feature vector of the training document paragraph isthen passed to a soft-max layer of the first BiLSTM network to obtain apredicted probability value of the training document paragraph. A binarycross-entropy loss function of the first BiLSTM network, defined between(i) the predicted probability value of the training document paragraph,and (ii) an actual probability value of the training document paragraph,is minimized. The actual probability value of the training documentparagraph is defined from the annotation class corresponding to thetraining document paragraph. For example, the actual probability valueof the training document paragraph is ‘1’ if the annotation classcorresponding to the training document paragraph is the fabricationprocedure paragraph (positive sample). Similarly, the actual probabilityvalue of the training document paragraph is ‘0’ if the annotation classcorresponding to the training document paragraph is the non-fabricationprocedure paragraph (negative sample). In an embodiment, the binarycross-entropy loss function of the first BiLSTM network ismathematically expressed as:Loss function=−[m ₁ t log(p)+m ₂(1−t)log(1−p)]  (1)where p represents the predicted probability value of the trainingdocument paragraph, t represents the actual probability value of thetraining document paragraph, and m₁ and m₂ represents weightscorresponding to misclassification cost of the annotation class 1(fabrication procedure paragraph (positive sample)) and the annotationclass 0 (non-fabrication procedure paragraph (negative sample)),respectively.

Based on the binary cross-entropy loss function of the first BiLSTMnetwork, weights of the first BiLSTM network are optimized. Likewise,the first BiLSTM network is trained for the plurality of trainingdocument paragraphs to obtain the trained fabrication procedureparagraph classification model. Further, the trained fabricationprocedure paragraph classification model may be validated to finetunethe weights of the first BiLSTM network.

The trained fabrication procedure paragraph classification model is thenused to identify the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs out ofthe plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, using the sectionheader for each pre-processed document paragraph of the plurality ofpre-processed document paragraphs. Firstly, (a) the paragraph textvector, (b) the dictionary feature vector, and (c) the section headerfeature vector, for each pre-processed document paragraph, are obtainedin the similar manner described during the training of the first BiLSTMnetwork. The paragraph text vector for each pre-processed documentparagraph includes an embedding for each pre-processed paragraphsentence word of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentence wordscorresponding to each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the pluralityof pre-processed paragraph sentences corresponding to the pre-processeddocument paragraph. In an embodiment, the fastText based embedding layeris used to obtain the embedding for each pre-processed paragraphsentence word.

The dictionary feature vector for each pre-processed document paragraphis obtained by defining the initial dictionary feature vector with theplurality of predefined keywords. Then, the Boolean value for eachpredefined keyword is assigned based on presence of the predefinedkeyword in the pre-processed document paragraph. For example, if thepredefined keyword is present in the pre-processed document paragraph(matches with one of the pre-processed paragraph sentence word presentin the pre-processed document paragraph), then the Boolean value ‘1’ isassigned for the predefined keyword. If the predefined keyword is notpresent in the pre-processed document paragraph (not matches with anyone of pre-processed paragraph sentence word present in thepre-processed document paragraph), then the Boolean value ‘0’ isassigned for the predefined keyword.

The section header feature vector for each pre-processed documentparagraph is obtained by defining the initial section header featurevector with the plurality of predefined section headers. Then, theBoolean value for each predefined section header is assigned, based onmatching of the predefined section header with the section header of thepre-processed document paragraph. For example, if the predefined sectionheader matches with the section header of the pre-processed documentparagraph, then the Boolean value ‘1’ is assigned to the predefinedsection header. If the predefined section header is not matching withthe section header of the pre-processed document paragraph, then theBoolean value ‘0’ is assigned to the predefined section header.

Then, (a) the paragraph text vector, (b) the dictionary feature vector,and (c) the section header feature vector, for each pre-processeddocument paragraph of the plurality of pre-processed documentparagraphs, is passed to the trained fabrication procedure paragraphclassification model, to obtain the predicted probability value for eachpre-processed document paragraph. Lastly, the one or more fabricationprocedure paragraphs are identified from the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, based on the predicted probability valuecorresponding to each pre-processed document paragraph. In anembodiment, if the predicted probability value of the pre-processeddocument paragraph is greater than or equal to ‘0.5’, then thepre-processed document paragraph is identified as the fabricationprocedure paragraph. Similarly, if the predicted probability value ofthe pre-processed document paragraph is less than ‘0.5’, then thepre-processed document paragraph is identified as the non-fabricationprocedure paragraph and such pre-processed document paragraph are notconsidered for further processing.

An exemplary fabrication procedure paragraph after the pre-processing ismentioned below. The exemplary fabrication procedure paragraph includessix fabrication procedure paragraph sentences. The information relatedto the fabrication process may present in at least one fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence.

An exemplary fabrication procedure paragraph: “Solar cells werefabricated on pre-cleaned ITO-coated glass substrates. First, a thin(about 5 nm) PT layer was deposited on ITO-coated glass byelectrochemical polymerization. Then the PT film was infiltrated withPbI2 by spin-coating at 8,000 rpm for 60 s with a PbI2 solution indimethylformamide (DMF) (462 mg·mL−1, at 20° C.) in a N2 glove box.After drying, the film was dipped in a CH3NH3I solution in 2-propanol(10 mg·mL−1) at 70° C. for 90 s in air, then rinsed with 2-propanol.After the CH3NH3I perovskite was annealed at 100° C. for 40 min in air,C60 (30-50 nm)/BCP (5-15 nm) were deposited sequentially under highvacuum. Finally, Ag (100 nm) was thermally evaporated on top of thedevice to form the cell's back contact.”

An exemplary non-fabrication procedure paragraph after thepre-processing is mentioned below. The exemplary non-fabricationprocedure paragraph describes about materials but does not include anyinformation related to the fabrication process.

An exemplary non-fabrication procedure paragraph: “Thiophene andBF3·Et2O (BFEE) were purchased from J and K. PbI2, C60, BCP, and Ag werepurchased from Alfa Aesar and Sigma-Aldrich. Indium tin oxide(ITO)-coated glass substrates with sheet resistance of 24 Ω/sq werepurchased from CSG Holding Co., Ltd. BF3·Et2O was purified bydistillation prior to its use. Cyclic voltammograms were obtained indichloromethane (1×10-3 M) using tetrabutylammonium hexafluorophosphate(TBAPF6) (0.1 M) as the supporting electrolyte at a scan rate of 0.1V·s−1 and Fc/Fc+(Fc=ferrocene) as an internal reference during themeasurement. The HOMO and LUMO energy levels were estimated relative tothe energy level of a ferrocene reference (4.8 eV below vacuum level).UV-Vis spectra were obtained with a JASCO V-570 spectrophotometer.”

At step 308 of the method 300, the one or more hardware processors 104of the system 100 are configured to identify one or more entities, foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs obtained at step 306of the method 300, through the entity identification unit 208. Theplurality of entities is associated with a plurality of predefinedconcepts related to the fabrication procedure of the device category. Inan embodiment, the plurality of predefined concepts related to thefabrication procedure, may be captured from a knowledge representationmeta model.

The knowledge representation meta model may be defined from an ontologygenerated from the existing domain knowledge of the fabrication process.The ontology provides a path to obtain the knowledge representation metamodel by modelling the domain knowledge in terms of concepts of thedomain and the relationships between these concepts. The modelling mayguide on how the domain knowledge to be captured and reasoned with toenable decisions pertaining to various processes during the devicefabrication. The modelling enables capturing the domain knowledge aboutthe functional materials, their structures and properties, synthesisoperations, respective operating parameters and operating methods,apparatus being used in each operation, and the properties andperformance characteristics of the device that result from performingthese operations. The modelling also enables reasoning with the domainknowledge to be able to answer questions that help the engineers makeinformed decisions during the device fabrication. Typical reasoningincludes what operations should be performed to achieve desiredperformance characteristics, in which sequence they should be performed,what type and amount of materials should be used in a particularoperation, the operating conditions to be used, the operating method tobe used, and so on.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary knowledgerepresentation meta model for building the analytical platform to enablethe device fabrication, in accordance with some embodiments of thepresent disclosure. As shown in FIG. 5 , the entities are represented interms of the plurality of predefined concepts related to the fabricationprocedure. An association between two entities form a relation and aplurality of predefined relations are also shown in FIG. 5 . From FIG. 5, the plurality of predefined concepts include: Fabrication process,Material synthesis, Property, Characterization, Device (fabricationdevice), Operation, Material, Apparatus (operating device), Parameter,Condition, Material quantity, Value, Unit (measurement type), Operatingmethod, Structure, and Composition.

The predefined concept Device models the devices that are beingfabricated or developed. A device has the fabrication process in theform of the sequence of operations. The predefined concept Operationmodels an atomic process performed on a material and/or device with aset of parameters (the predefined concept Parameter). A parameter is ameasurable factor that represents a condition (the predefined conceptCondition) for the operation. An operation may use one or more materials(the predefined concept Material) and a specific apparatus (thepredefined concept Apparatus) to achieve the desired state of the deviceand/or material. The predefined concept Apparatus models a technicalequipment needed to perform a particular operation. An operation may usea specific method to carry out the operation.

Similarly, the predefined concept Material models the materials used inthe operation (predefined concept Operation). A material may be achemical compound, a chemical element, a solution or a mixture.Different materials may play different roles depending on how they areused in an operation. A material that is transformed chemically duringthe operation is referred as a precursor material. Whereas, a materialthat is necessary to carry out the operation in an efficient manner butnot transformed chemically is referred as a secondary material (e.g.,materials such as catalyst, promoter, or even a gas in the environment).

Further, the association between a pair of the predefined concepts formsone or more relations and such one or more relations for each conceptsforms a plurality of relations. From FIG. 5 , the plurality ofpredefined relations includes: inMaterial, outMaterial, inDevice,outDevice, hasParam, opApparatus, has Value, hasUnit, hasProperty,opMethod, and opCondition. The predefined relation MaterialQuantityspecifies an amount of material consumed in a particular operation, andrepresented in terms of weight, volume, etc. The predefined relationMaterialComposition describes the chemical composition of the materialbeing used in the operation. The predefined relation Property describesthe properties of the material being used in the operation. Thepredefined relation Characterization describes the performance of thedevice, which is a measure of the property the device exhibits whensubjected to specified conditions.

In an embodiment, the entity identification unit 208 includes a trainednamed entity identification model that is used to identify the one ormore entities, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph. In an embodiment, obtaining the trainednamed entity identification model is described in the following steps.Firstly, a plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs isreceived. Each training fabrication procedure paragraph includes aplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraph sentences. Eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence includes a pluralityof training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words.

In an embodiment, the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraphs may be obtained from the plurality of training documentparagraphs mentioned at step 306 of the method 300, using the trainedfabrication procedure paragraph classification model. Further, an entityannotation for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceword of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence words present in each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence of each training fabrication procedure paragraph is received.The entity annotation for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word indicates the predefined concept out of the plurality ofpredefined concepts captured from the knowledge representation metamodel.

Next, (a) a gazetteer feature vector, (b) a casing feature vector, (c) apart of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d) a character embedding vector,and (e) a word embedding, for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence words present in each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence of each training fabrication procedureparagraph are obtained.

The gazetteer feature vector for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word, is obtained by defining an initial gazetteerfeature vector of the vector size k with the plurality of predefinedconcepts. The vector size k refers to a number of the plurality ofpredefined concepts captured from the knowledge representation metamodel. Next, the Boolean value for each predefined concept defined inthe initial gazetteer feature vector, is assigned, based on associationof the predefined concept with the training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word. For example, if the predefined concept has theassociation with the training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceword, then the Boolean value ‘1’ is assigned for the predefined concept.If the predefined concept has no association with the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word, then the Boolean value‘0’ is assigned for the predefined concept. More specifically, if thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word is ‘annealing’,then the predefined concept Operation has the association with the‘annealing’. Hence, the Boolean value ‘1’ is assigned to the predefinedconcept Operation in the initial gazetteer feature vector. Similarly,the predefined concept Apparatus has no association with the‘annealing’. Hence, the Boolean value ‘0’ is assigned to the predefinedconcept Apparatus in the initial gazetteer feature vector.

The casing feature vector for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word is a predefined casing type of one or morepredefined casing types, associated with the training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word. In an embodiment, the one or morepredefined casing types include: {‘numeric’, ‘allLower’, ‘allUpper’,‘initialUpper’, ‘other’, ‘mainly_numeric’, ‘contains_digit’,‘PADDING_WORD’}. A predefined casing value is assigned to eachpredefined casing type of the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word. Table 1 shows the predefined casing value for eachpredefined casing type of the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word.

TABLE 1 Predefined casing value Predefined casing type 0 If the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word is a number (“4000”, “25”,etc.) 1 If all characters of the training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word are lowercase (“glass”, “at”, “seconds”, etc.) 2If all characters of the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word are capitalized. For example, abbreviations of chemicalnames are described (ex - “FTO”, “ITO”, etc) 3 If the initial characterof the training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word isuppercase (for example, “Aldrich”) 4 If none of the conditions match 5If more than 50% of the characters in the training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word are numeric (digits) 6 If digits present withinthe training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word, For example,“PbCl₂”, “MAPbl₃”, etc. 7 If the training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word is a padding word

The PoS feature vector for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word is a predefined PoS type of one or more predefined PoStypes, associated with the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word. In an embodiment, the one or more predefined PoS typesinclude 45 part of speech tags present in a chemical aware PoS tagger.

The character embedding vector for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word is an array of character embeddings associatedwith each character present in the training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word. In an embodiment, an embedding layer may beused to learn the character embedding for each character.

The word embedding for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word is an embedding of the training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word. In an embodiment, an ELMo embedding is used toobtain the word embedding for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word.

Then, a second bi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) network istrained with (i) (a) the gazetteer feature vector, (b) the casingfeature vector, (c) the part of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d) thecharacter embedding vector, and (e) the word embedding, for eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of the pluralityof training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present ineach training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence, at a time, ofeach training fabrication procedure paragraph, using the entityannotation for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceword, to obtain the trained named entity identification model. FIG. 6 isa block diagram of the second BiLSTM network, to obtain the trainednamed entity identification model, in accordance with some embodimentsof the present disclosure. The training of the second BiLSTM for eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence is further describedin the below steps.

Firstly, (a) the gazetteer feature vector, (b) the casing featurevector, (c) the part of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d) the characterembedding vector, and (e) the word embedding, corresponding to eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word, is concatenatedto obtain a concatenated feature vector for the training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word of the plurality of trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present in each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the training fabricationprocedure paragraph. Next, the concatenated feature vector for eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of the pluralityof training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present ineach training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph, is passed, to a bi-directional longshort term memory (BiLSTM) layer of the second BiLSTM network, to learnthe hidden state for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word.

Then, the hidden state for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence words present in each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of the training fabrication procedure paragraph, ispassed to a conditional random field (CRF) layer of the second BiLSTMnetwork, to obtain a predicted probability distribution, for eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph. A probability function of the secondBiLSTM network, is maximized, wherein the probability function of thesecond BiLSTM network is defined based on (i) the predicted probabilitydistribution, for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceof the training fabrication procedure paragraph, and (i) an actualprobability distribution for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of the training fabrication procedure paragraph. Theactual probability distribution for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of the training fabrication procedure paragraph, isdefined from the entity annotation for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word of the plurality of trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present in each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the training fabricationprocedure paragraph. In an embodiment, the probability function of thesecond BiLSTM network is mathematically expressed as:

$\begin{matrix}{{P\left( y \middle| x \right)} = {\frac{1}{Z_{x}}{\prod_{t = 1}^{T}{{\psi_{t}\left( y_{t} \middle| T_{x} \right)}{\psi_{p}\left( {y_{t},{y_{t} - 1}} \right)}}}}} & (2)\end{matrix}$where, ψ_(t) is a local factor which computes output label score at eachposition t given only the representation at that position as computed bythe second BiLSTM network i.e. T_(x), Z_(x) is the normalizationconstant; ψ_(p)(y_(t), y_(t)−1) denotes a factor that captures labeltransition scores for the CRF layer to account for the labeldependencies. During the prediction, a dynamic programming based Viterbialgorithm is used by the second BiLSTM network to collectively predictthe complete output label sequence for the training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence.

Lastly, weights of the second BiLSTM network are optimized, based on theprobability function of the second BiLSTM network. Likewise, the secondBiLSTM network is trained for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of each training fabrication procedure paragraph ofthe plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs, to obtainthe trained named entity identification model. Further, the trainednamed entity identification model may be validated to finetune theweights of the second BiLSTM network.

The trained named entity identification model is then used to identifyone or more entities, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedureparagraphs. Firstly, (a) the gazetteer feature vector, (b) the casingfeature vector, (c) the part of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d) thecharacter embedding vector, and (e) the word embedding, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence word of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentence words present in each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph, are obtained inthe similar manner described during the training of the second BiLSTMnetwork.

The gazetteer feature vector for each pre-processed paragraph sentenceword, is obtained by defining the initial gazetteer feature vector withthe plurality of predefined concepts. Then, the Boolean value for eachpredefined concept of the plurality of predefined concepts defined inthe initial gazetteer feature vector, is assigned based on associationof the predefined concept with the pre-processed paragraph sentenceword. The casing feature vector for each pre-processed paragraphsentence word is the predefined casing type of the one or morepredefined casing types, associated with the pre-processed paragraphsentence word. The PoS feature vector for each pre-processed paragraphsentence word is the predefined PoS type of the one or more predefinedPoS types, associated with the pre-processed paragraph sentence word.The character embedding vector for pre-processed paragraph sentence wordis the array of character embeddings associated with each characterpresent in the pre-processed paragraph sentence word. The word embeddingfor each pre-processed paragraph sentence word is the embedding of thepre-processed paragraph sentence word.

Next, (a) the gazetteer feature vector, (b) the casing feature vector,(c) the part of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d) the character embeddingvector, and (e) the word embedding, corresponding to each pre-processedparagraph sentence word are concatenated, to obtain the concatenatedfeature vector for each pre-processed paragraph sentence word of theplurality of each pre-processed paragraph sentence words present in eachpre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs. Then, theconcatenated feature vector for each pre-processed paragraph sentenceword of the plurality of each pre-processed paragraph sentence wordspresent in each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,is passed, to the trained named entity identification model, to obtainthe predicted probability distribution for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph. Lastly, the one ormore entities out of the plurality of entities, for each pre-processedparagraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, are identified, based on the predictedprobability distribution for each pre-processed paragraph sentence ofthe plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph.

FIG. 7 illustrates one or more entities identified for an exemplarypre-processed paragraph sentence, by the trained named entityidentification model, in accordance with some embodiments of the presentdisclosure. The exemplary pre-processed paragraph sentence is taken fromthe exemplary fabrication procedure paragraph mentioned at step 306 ofthe method 300. As shown in FIG. 7 , for the exemplary pre-processedparagraph sentence: ‘Then the PT film was infiltrated with PbI2 byspin-coating at 8,000 rpm for 60 s with a PbI2 solution indimethylformamide (DMF) (462 mg·mL−1, at 20° C.) in a N2 glove box’, theone or more entities identified by the trained named entityidentification model are: {PT film, infiltrated, PbI2, spin-coating,8,000, rpm, 60, s, PbI2 solution in dimethylformamide, N2 glove box}.For example, the entity ‘PT film’ is the device and associated with thepredefined concept Device. Similarly, the entity ‘infiltrated’ is a typeof operation and associated with the predefined concept Operation, andso on. Note here that ‘PbI2 solution in dimethylformamide’ consists ofmultiple words, but still identified as single entity.

At step 310 of the method 300, the one or more hardware processors 104of the system 100 are configured to identify one or more firstpredefined relations out of a first set of predefined relations, foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, by a trainedrelation identification model present in the relation identificationunit 210, using the one or more entities identified at step 308 of themethod 300, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence.

Further, the one or more hardware processors 104 of the system 100 areconfigured to identify one or more second predefined relations out of asecond set of predefined relations, for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, by a set of predefined patternexpressions present in the relation identification unit 210, using theone or more entities identified at step 308 of the method 300, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence.

In an embodiment, the first set of predefined relations and the secondset of predefined relations may be defined from the plurality ofpredefined relations captured from the knowledge representation metamodel mentioned at step 308 of the method 300. In an embodiment, thefirst set of predefined relations include: inMaterial, outMaterial,inDevice, outDevice, and hasParam. In an embodiment, the second set ofpredefined relations include opApparatus, has Value, hasUnit,hasProperty, opMethod, and opCondition.

In an embodiment, obtaining the trained relation identification model isdescribed in the following steps. Firstly, one or more entitiesidentified for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence ofa plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraph sentencesassociated with each training fabrication procedure paragraph, arereceived. In an embodiment, the one or more entities for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence may be identified by using thetrained named entity identification model obtained at step 308 of themethod 300. One or more entity pairs are formed for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence, using the one or more entitiescorresponding to the training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence.Further, a predefined relation annotation out of the first set ofpredefined relation annotations, for each predefined entity pair of theone or more predefined entity pairs corresponding to each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence associated with each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph, are received. The predefined relationannotation for each predefined entity pair, represents the predefinedrelation out of the plurality of predefined relations captured from theknowledge representation meta model, for each predefined entity pair.For example, the predefined relation outMaterial is the predefinedrelation annotation for the predefined entity pairs Operation andMaterial. Similarly, the predefined relation opApparatus is thepredefined relation annotation for the predefined entity pairs Operationand Apparatus, and so on.

Next, one or more entity-level feature vectors and one or moreentity-pair-level feature vectors, for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentences associated with each training fabricationprocedure paragraph are extracted. The one or more entity-level featurevectors for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence,includes a first set of features associated with each predefined entityof the one or more entities identified for the training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence. In an embodiment, the first set offeatures associated with each predefined entity includes: (i) the entity(the training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word) and theassociated PoS (W, T), (ii) the word appears previous to the entity andthe associated PoS (PW, PT), (iii) the word appears next to the entityand the associated PoS (NW, NT), (iv) the parent of the entity in adependency tree and the associated PoS (Pa, PaT), (v) the named entitytag (the concept associated to the entity) (NE), and (vi) the dependencyrelation type between the entity and the parent (DR). The dependencytree represents grammatical structure of a sentence in terms ofdependency relations between words. A dependency relation identifies agrammatical relation between the head word and the word that modifiesthe dependency. In an embodiment, the dependency tree may be createdusing a dependency parser.

The one or more entity-pair-level feature vectors for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence, includes a second set offeatures associated with each predefined entity pair for the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence. In an embodiment, the secondset of features associated with each predefined entity pair includes:(i) a word distance (WD), between the entity pair, (ii) tree distance(TD), between the entities in the dependency tree, (iii) common ancestor(CA) between the entities in the dependency tree, (iv) Ancestor position(AP), and (v) dependency path (DP) which defines sequence of relationsbetween the entities in the dependency tree.

Then, a hybrid neural network is trained with the one or moreentity-level feature vectors and one or more entity-pair-level featurevectors, for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence ofthe plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraph sentencesassociated with each training fabrication procedure paragraph, to obtainthe trained relation identification model, using the predefined relationannotation corresponding to each predefined entity pair. In anembodiment, the hybrid neural network includes a set of embeddinglayers, a first hidden layer, a second hidden layer, an LSTM layer and asoft-max layer. FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the hybrid neural network,to obtain the trained relation identification model, in accordance withsome embodiments of the present disclosure. The training of the hybridneural network for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence is described in the following steps.

Firstly, a set of entity embeddings for the one or more entity-levelfeature vectors and a set of entity-pair embeddings for the one or moreentity-pair-level feature vectors, for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence, are obtained using the set of embeddinglayers of the hybrid neural network. Then, the set of entity embeddingsfor the one or more entity-level feature vectors are passed to the firsthidden layer of the hybrid neural network. The set of entity-pairembeddings for the one or more entity-pair-level feature vectors arepassed to the second hidden layer of the hybrid neural network. Thedependency path (DP) of the second set of features is passes to the LSTMlayer of the hybrid neural network. The output of the first hiddenlayer, the second hidden layer, and the LSTM layer are then passed tothe soft-max layer of the hybrid neural network, to obtain a predictedprobability distribution for each predefined entity pair out of the oneor more entities identified for the training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence.

A categorical cross-entropy loss function of the hybrid neural networkminimized, wherein the categorical cross-entropy loss function definedbetween (i) the predicted probability distribution for each predefinedentity pair, and (ii) an actual probability distribution correspondingto the predefined entity pair. The actual probability distribution foreach predefined entity pair is defined from the predefined relationannotation corresponding to the predefined entity pair. In anembodiment, the categorical cross-entropy loss function of the hybridneural network is mathematically expressed as:Loss function=−Σ_(i=1) ^(N) y _(i)·log ŷ _(i)  (3)wherein, y_(i) is actual probability distribution for each predefinedentity pair (the predefined relation annotation, and ŷ_(i) is thepredicted probability distribution for each predefined entity pair (thepredicted relation), and N represents number of the plurality ofpredefined relation annotations.

Lastly, weights of the hybrid neural network are optimized, based on thecategorical cross-entropy loss function of the hybrid neural network.Likewise, the hybrid neural network is trained for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of each training fabricationprocedure paragraph of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraphs, to obtain the trained relation identification model.Further, the trained relation identification model may be validated tofinetune the weights of the hybrid neural network.

The trained relation identification model is then used to identify theone or more first predefined relations out of the first set ofpredefined relations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph, using the one or more entitiesidentified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence. Firstly, the oneor more entity-level feature vectors and the one or moreentity-pair-level feature vectors, for each pre-processed paragraphsentence, are obtained in the similar manner described during thetraining of the hybrid neural network. The one or more entity-levelfeature vectors for each pre-processed paragraph sentence, includes afirst set of features associated with each predefined entity of the oneor more entities identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence.The one or more entity-pair-level feature vectors for each pre-processedparagraph sentence, includes a second set of features associated witheach predefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identifiedfor the pre-processed paragraph sentence.

Table 2 shows the set of features associated with two entities‘infiltrated’ and ‘spin-coating’ that are present in the exemplarypre-processed paragraph sentence: ‘Then the PT film was infiltrated withPbI2 by spin-coating at 8,000 rpm for 60 s with a PbI2 solution indimethylformamide (DMF) (462 mg·mL−1, at 20° C.) in a N2 glove box’ ofthe exemplary fabrication procedure paragraph mentioned at step 306 ofthe method 300. The set of features are then used to obtain theentity-level feature vectors.

TABLE 2 Feature Value for Feature Value for Feature Entity 1(infiltrated) Entity 2 (PT film) Entity (W) Infiltrated PT film NextWord (NW) With Was Previous Word (PW) was The Parent (Pa) NILinfiltrated Entity PoS (T) VBN NN NN Next Word PoS (NT) IN VBD PreviousWord PoS (PT) VBD DT Parent PoS (PaT) NIL VBN NE Tag (NE) Operationdevice Dependency Relation (DR) NIL Nsubjpass

Table 3 shows the set of features associated with entity pair‘infiltrated’ and ‘spin-coating’ that are present in the exemplarypre-processed paragraph sentence: ‘Then the PT film was infiltrated withPbI2 by spin-coating at 8,000 rpm for 60 s with a PbI2 solution indimethylformamide (DMF) (462 mg·mL−1, at 20° C.) in a N2 glove box’ ofthe exemplary fabrication procedure paragraph mentioned at step 306 ofthe method 300. The set of features are then used to obtain theentity-pair-level feature vectors.

TABLE 3 Feature Feature value Word Distance (WD) 1 Tree Distance (TD) 1Common Ancestor (CA) Infiltrated Ancestor Position (AP) 5 DependencyPath (DP) Nsubjpass

Then, the one or more entity-level feature vectors and the one or moreentity-pair-level feature vectors, for each pre-processed paragraph, arepassed, to the trained relation identification model, to obtain thepredicted probability distribution for each predefined entity paircorresponding to the pre-processed paragraph sentence. Lastly, the oneor more first predefined relations for each pre-processed paragraphsentence, are identified, based on the predicted probabilitydistribution for each predefined entity pair out of the one or moreentities identified for the pre-processed paragraph sentence.

Further, the one or more hardware processors 104 of the system 100 areconfigured to identify one or more second predefined relations out of asecond set of predefined relations, for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, by a set of predefined patternexpressions present in the relation identification unit 210, using theone or more entities identified at step 308 of the method 300, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence.

In an embodiment, the set of predefined pattern expressions aregenerated using pattern application programming interfaces (API) such asa TokensRegex API, a Semgrex API, and so on, using the entities, the PoSfeatures of the entities, the word level features, and the dependencypath based features. Table 4 shows an exemplary pattern expression forsome of the second set of predefined relations.

TABLE 4 Relation Pattern expression hasUnit([{tag:CD}|{ner:/conditionVal|paramVal|propVal|matQuantityVal/}])([{ner:“unit”}]) opApparatus{ner:/operation|method/}=operation>/nmod:through/{ner:/apparatus/}=apparatus); {ner:/operation/}=operation</.*/({word:/carried/}>/nmod:in/ {ner:/apparatus/}=apparatus) hasValue([{tag:CD}])[word:/:/]([[tag:CD}])[[ner:/unit/}][word:/solution|suspension/][word:/of/][{ner:/solvent|material/}])[word:/in|:/]([{ner:/solvent|material/}])opMethod([{ner:/operation/}])[!{ner:/operation|method/}]*([{ner:/method/ }])hasProperty {ner:/property/}=prop>/nmod:of|amod/{ner:/device|material|solute|solvent/}=device opCondition{ner:/method|operation/}=method>/nmod:at/({ner:/unit/}>/nmod:for/({ner:/unit/} >/nmod:(under|in)|amod/{ner:/condition/}=condition))

The one or more first predefined relations identified using the trainedrelation identification model, and the one or more second predefinedrelations identified using the set of predefined pattern expressionsforms a set of relations for each pre-processed paragraph sentence ofthe plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph.

FIG. 9A illustrates one or more first predefined relations identifiedfor the exemplary pre-processed paragraph sentence, by the trainedrelation identification model, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 9A, for the exemplarypre-processed paragraph sentence: ‘Then the PT film was infiltrated withPbI2 by spin-coating at 8,000 rpm for 60 s with a PbI2 solution indimethylformamide (DMF) (462 mg·mL−1, at 20° C.) in a N2 glove box’, thepredefined relation indevice is identified for the entity pair ‘PT film’and ‘infiltrated’, by the trained relation identification model, basedon the predefined concepts Device and Operation, associated with theentities. Similarly, other first predefined relations are identified foreach entity pair based on the association.

FIG. 9B illustrates one or more second predefined relations identifiedfor the exemplary pre-processed paragraph sentence, by a set ofpredefined pattern expressions, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 9B, for the exemplarypre-processed paragraph sentence: ‘Then the PT film was infiltrated withPbI2 by spin-coating at 8,000 rpm for 60 s with a PbI2 solution indimethylformamide (DMF) (462 mg·mL−1, at 20° C.) in a N2 glove box’, thepredefined relation opMethod is identified for the entity pair‘infiltrated’ and ‘spin-coating’, by the set of predefined patternexpressions, based on the predefined concepts Operation andOperatingMethod, associated with the entities. Similarly, other secondpredefined relations are identified for each entity pair based on theassociation.

FIG. 9C illustrates the one or more first predefined relations and theone or more second predefined relations, identified for the exemplarypre-processed paragraph sentence, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 9C, the first predefinedrelations and the second predefined relations identified for theexemplary pre-processed paragraph sentence: ‘Then the PT film wasinfiltrated with PbI2 by spin-coating at 8,000 rpm for 60 s with a PbI2solution in dimethylformamide (DMF) (462 mg·mL−1, at 20° C.) in a N2glove box’, are {inMaterial, opApparatus, opMethod, outMaterial,hasValue, hasUnit, indevice} for the corresponding entity pairs.

At step 312 of the method 300, the one or more hardware processors 104of the system 100 are configured to identify device fabricationprocedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, through the device fabricationprocedure extraction unit 212. The device fabrication procedureextraction unit 212 includes a rule based unsupervised algorithm whichis used to identify device fabrication procedure for each fabricationprocedure paragraph using the one or more entities identified at step308 of the method, for the pre-processed paragraph sentence. The devicefabrication procedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph, includesa sequence of operations associated with the fabrication process.

The rule based unsupervised algorithm links the operations in the orderin which they are mentioned in each fabrication procedure paragraph.First, the one or more entities associated with the predefined conceptOperation, identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence by thetrained named entity identification model, at step 308 of the method300, are captured. Then, a relation next is assigned between eachconsecutive entities associated with the predefined concept Operation,that appear next to each other in the textual order.

FIG. 10 illustrates a device fabrication procedure identified for anexemplary fabrication procedure paragraph, in accordance with someembodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 10 , the devicefabrication procedure identified for the exemplary fabrication procedureparagraph mentioned at step 306 of the method 300 describes the sequenceof operations present in the exemplary fabrication procedure paragraph,in the sequential order.

At step 314 of the method 300, the one or more hardware processors 104of the system 100 are configured to generate an operation sequenceknowledge graph for each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one ormore fabrication procedure paragraphs, through the operation sequenceknowledge graph unit 214. In an embodiment, the operation sequenceknowledge graph unit 214 includes a graph database tool that may be usedto generate the operation sequence knowledge graph for each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs.The graph database tool utilizes (i) the one or more entities identifiedfor each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph, at step 308 of the method 300, (ii) (a) the one ormore first predefined relations the one or more second predefinedrelations identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph at step 310 of the method 300, and (iii)the device fabrication procedure for each fabrication procedureparagraph, at step 312 of the method 300, to generate the operationsequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedure paragraph. Theoperation sequence knowledge graph is a knowledge graph consists of theidentified entities and the identified relations between them. Theknowledge representation meta model specifies the type information forthe identified entities and the identified relations.

FIG. 11 illustrates an operation sequence knowledge graph for theexemplary fabrication procedure paragraph, in accordance with someembodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 11 , theoperation sequence knowledge graph generated for the exemplaryfabrication procedure paragraph mentioned at step 306 of the method 300describes, the sequence of operations, operating methods, operatingparameters, operating devices, and so on.

At step 316 of the method 300, the one or more hardware processors 104of the system 100 are configured to build the analytical platform toenable the device fabrication, for the device category, using theoperation sequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedureparagraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, throughthe analytical platform unit 216. In an embodiment, the analyticalplatform unit 216 includes a graph search engine such as Neo4j,OrientDB, ArangoDB, DGraph, that may be used to build the analyticalplatform to enable the device fabrication. In an embodiment, theanalytical platform includes but are not limited to a graph searchplatform, a knowledge query engine, a question-answer (QA) platform, anda virtual chatbot.

The analytical platform may be queried to make informed decisions duringthe device fabrication of the new devices. For example, if the materialdesigner wants to fabricate a solar cell with V_(oc) of 1.15 V amongother standard characteristics and decides to use MaPbBr₃ perovskite. Asuitable query is formed and queried to the analytical platform toidentify the solar cells with similar characteristics. Further,analyzing the available devices and the respective device fabricationpresent in the domain knowledge helps the material designer narrow downthe design space of materials, operations, and the operating conditions.In another example, if the material designer wishes to carry out thedevice fabrication in air as opposed to the standard practice of using aglove box. The resulted information from the analytical platform may beutilized to narrow down the design space further.

The question-answer (QA) platform may be built using the operationsequence knowledge graphs associated with the one or more fabricationprocedure paragraphs, utilizing the graph search engine. Thequestion-answer (QA) platform may be achieved by adding a query languageplatform such as structured query language (SQL) tool, SPARQL Protocoland RDF Query Language tools. Typical questions that device fabricationengineers are typically interested in consist of what operations shouldbe performed to achieve desired performance characteristics of thedevice, what sequence of operations should be performed, what type andamount of materials should be used in a particular operation, and so on.Some of the exemplary questions for extracting the information relatedto the solar cell fabrication includes:

-   -   1. What are the different types of cleaning methods used when        the substrate under consideration is either FTO or ITO?    -   2. What thickness of gold electrode can be used to obtain a        power conversion efficiency in the range of 15-25%?    -   3. What are the parameter set points (speed and time) for spin        coating MAPbI₃ solution, in order to achieve an open circuit        voltage in the range of (write the specific range)?    -   4. What happens to short circuit current when the perovskite        material in question is rotated for lower duration (<10 seconds)        and annealed at higher temperature range (>100 Degree C.)    -   5. What is the range of quantities used for precursor materials        while synthesizing the light absorbing material in question? For        instance, for synthesis of MAPbI₃, what are the quantities of        PbI2 and MAI used?    -   6. What are different methods used for various operations like        cleaning, coating, depositing, annealing etc.?    -   7. What is range of temperatures used for annealing for the        light absorbing material in question?    -   8. What is the effect of thickness of gold electrode while        thermally evaporating it at higher temperature for longer        duration?

Further, the graph search platform may be built using the operationsequence knowledge graphs associated with the one or more fabricationprocedure paragraphs, utilizing the graph search engine such asOrientDB. The OrientDB is a NoSql database system that has inherentsupport for graphs. The OrientDB contains two base classes i.e. Vertexclass to represent nodes (concepts) and Edge class to represent edges(relations). In an embodiment, the knowledge representation meta modelshown in FIG. 5 may be used to create a knowledge graph (KG) schema forstoring the operation sequence knowledge graphs associated with the oneor more fabrication procedure paragraphs. Particularly, for eachpredefined concept mentioned in the knowledge representation meta model,a subclass of Vertex class in the OrientDB is generated. Similarly, foreach predefined relation mentioned in the knowledge representation metamodel, a subclass of Edge class in the OrientDB is generated. Thegenerated subclasses are used to create the knowledge graph (KG) schemafor storing the operation sequence knowledge graphs associated with theone or more fabrication procedure paragraphs.

For example, for an exemplary fabrication procedure paragraph sentence:‘ethanol is a material that is used in a cleaning operation, a materialinstance ‘ethanol’ is created, and the corresponding type is set to theconcept Material. Similarly, the operation instance ‘cleaning’ iscreated, and the corresponding type is set to the concept Operation.These two created instances are then connected using the instance of therelation ‘inMaterial’. The created instances are then used to create theKG graph for storing the operation sequence knowledge graphs in theOrientDB.

The built OrientDB is then used as the analytical platform that supportsa query and analytics support on the stored data. The analyticalplatform uses a SQL like graph query language to query the storedoperation sequence knowledge graphs. For example, for the question:‘What are different methods used for deposition operation and theirlocations?, the graph query may be: ‘match {class:method,as:meth}.in(‘opMethod’){class:operation, as:op, where:(name=‘deposition’)} RETURN meth’. The graph query first looks for allthe operation nodes having name=‘deposition’. Then looks for edgeslabeled with ‘opMethod’ to find the corresponding method nodes. Theanalytical platform then lists down the method nodes. The materialdesigner may select any such method node to get its location informationsuch as the file name, procedure text, sentence where the method ismentioned etc. Further, the material designer can also traverse in/outedges from the method node to identify the associated parameters,apparatus, etc.

In another example, for the question: ‘What is the frequencydistribution of the used methods?, the graph query may be: ‘selectcount(*) from (match {class:method,as:meth}.in(‘opMethod’){class:operation, as:op, where:(name=‘deposition’)} RETURN distinct meth.name)’. The graph query inaddition to providing list of method nodes, groups the method name andlists down the number of procedures in which these methods werementioned. Table 5 shows an exemplary output of the SQL query:

TABLE 5 Number of Fabrication Operation name procedures Spin - coating60 Thermal Evaporation 30

In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, the methodand systems build the analytical platform using the domain knowledge ofthe device fabrication process for each device category. The analyticalplatform is quick, effective and efficient to retrieve the requiredknowledge related to the fabrication process in the structured format.Hence the time and efforts of material engineers and the designengineers are reduced in finding the relevant knowledge out of theexisting literature for fabricating the new devices. The analyticalplatform may also help the material engineers and the design engineersfor enabling synthesis of the new functional materials for meeting thedesired properties and performance of the fabricated devices. Theanalytical platform is simple in design and hence any fabricationindividual may be used for enabling the device fabrication.

Further, the analytical platform may be used for monitoring anddiagnosing the fabrication process and the fabricating apparatus whilethe fabrication process is being performed. This helps in improving theproductivity of the new devices.

It is to be understood that the scope of the protection is extended tosuch a program and in addition to a computer-readable means having amessage therein; such computer-readable storage means containprogram-code means for implementation of one or more steps of themethod, when the program runs on a server or mobile device or anysuitable programmable device. The hardware device can be any kind ofdevice which can be programmed including e.g., any kind of computer likea server or a personal computer, or the like, or any combinationthereof. The device may also include means which could be e.g., hardwaremeans like e.g., an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), afield-programmable gate array (FPGA), or a combination of hardware andsoftware means, e.g., an ASIC and an FPGA, or at least onemicroprocessor and at least one memory with software processingcomponents located therein. Thus, the means can include both hardwaremeans and software means. The method embodiments described herein couldbe implemented in hardware and software. The device may also includesoftware means. Alternatively, the embodiments may be implemented ondifferent hardware devices, e.g., using a plurality of CPUs.

The embodiments herein can comprise hardware and software elements. Theembodiments that are implemented in software include but are not limitedto, firmware, resident software, microcode, etc. The functions performedby various components described herein may be implemented in othercomponents or combinations of other components. For the purposes of thisdescription, a computer-usable or computer readable medium can be anyapparatus that can comprise, store, communicate, propagate, or transportthe program for use by or in connection with the instruction executionsystem, apparatus, or device.

The illustrated steps are set out to explain the exemplary embodimentsshown, and it should be anticipated that ongoing technologicaldevelopment will change the manner in which particular functions areperformed. These examples are presented herein for purposes ofillustration, and not limitation. Further, the boundaries of thefunctional building blocks have been arbitrarily defined herein for theconvenience of the description. Alternative boundaries can be defined solong as the specified functions and relationships thereof areappropriately performed. Alternatives (including equivalents,extensions, variations, deviations, etc., of those described herein)will be apparent to persons skilled in the relevant art(s) based on theteachings contained herein. Such alternatives fall within the scope ofthe disclosed embodiments. Also, the words “comprising,” “having,”“containing,” and “including,” and other similar forms are intended tobe equivalent in meaning and be open ended in that an item or itemsfollowing any one of these words is not meant to be an exhaustivelisting of such item or items, or meant to be limited to only the listeditem or items. It must also be noted that as used herein and in theappended claims, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” include pluralreferences unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

Furthermore, one or more computer-readable storage media may be utilizedin implementing embodiments consistent with the present disclosure. Acomputer-readable storage medium refers to any type of physical memoryon which information or data readable by a processor may be stored.Thus, a computer-readable storage medium may store instructions forexecution by one or more processors, including instructions for causingthe processor(s) to perform steps or stages consistent with theembodiments described herein. The term “computer-readable medium” shouldbe understood to include tangible items and exclude carrier waves andtransient signals, i.e., be non-transitory. Examples include randomaccess memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), volatile memory,nonvolatile memory, hard drives, CD ROMs, DVDs, flash drives, disks, andany other known physical storage media.

It is intended that the disclosure and examples be considered asexemplary only, with a true scope of disclosed embodiments beingindicated by the following claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A processor-implemented method comprising thesteps of: receiving, via one or more hardware processors, (i) a devicecategory associated with a device fabrication, (ii) one or more devicefabrication knowledge documents associated with the device category froma device fabrication knowledge repository, wherein each devicefabrication knowledge document comprises a plurality of documentparagraphs, wherein each document paragraph comprises one or moreparagraph sentences, and each paragraph sentence comprises a pluralityof paragraph sentence words; pre-processing, via the one or morehardware processors, each device fabrication knowledge document of theone or more device fabrication knowledge documents, to obtain: (i) aplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, in a plain text format,(ii) a section header for each pre-processed document paragraph of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, wherein eachpre-processed document paragraph comprises a plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences, and wherein each pre-processed paragraph sentencecomprises a plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentence words;identifying, via the one or more hardware processors, one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs out of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, by a trained fabrication procedure paragraphclassification model, using the section header for each pre-processeddocument paragraph of the plurality of pre-processed documentparagraphs, wherein each pre-processed document paragraph of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs is a fabricationprocedure paragraph, if the pre-processed document paragraph comprisesinformation related to a fabrication procedure; identifying, via the oneor more hardware processors, one or more entities, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, by a trained namedentity identification model, wherein the plurality of entities areassociated with a plurality of predefined concepts related to thefabrication procedure; identifying, via the one or more hardwareprocessors, (i) one or more first predefined relations out of a firstset of predefined relations, and (ii) one or more second predefinedrelations out of a second set of predefined relations, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, by (i) a trainedrelation identification model, and (ii) a set of predefined patternexpressions, respectively, using the one or more entities identified foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence; identifying, via the one or morehardware processors, a device fabrication procedure for each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,by a rule based unsupervised algorithm, using the one or more entitiesidentified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph, wherein the device fabrication procedure for eachfabrication procedure paragraph, comprises a sequence of operations; andgenerating, via the one or more hardware processors, an operationsequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedure paragraph of theone or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, using (i) the one or moreentities identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedureparagraphs, (ii) (a) the one or more first predefined relations out ofthe first set of predefined relations, and (b) the one or more secondpredefined relations out of the second set of predefined relations,identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,and (iii) the device fabrication procedure for each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,using a graph database tool.
 2. The method of claim 1, furthercomprising the step of building, via the one or more hardwareprocessors, an analytical platform to enable the device fabrication,using the operation sequence knowledge graph for each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,in a graph search engine.
 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the trainedfabrication procedure paragraph classification model is obtained by:receiving (i) a plurality of training document paragraphs associatedwith the device category, in the plain text format, (ii) the sectionheader for each training document paragraph of the plurality of trainingdocument paragraphs, and (iii) an annotation class for each trainingdocument paragraph of the plurality of training document paragraphs,wherein each training document paragraph comprises a plurality oftraining document paragraph sentences, and each training documentparagraph sentence comprises a plurality of training document paragraphsentence words, and wherein the annotation class for each trainingdocument paragraph is one of: (a) the fabrication procedure paragraph,and (b) a non-fabrication procedure paragraph; obtaining: (a) aparagraph text vector, (b) a dictionary feature vector, and (c) asection header feature vector, for each training document paragraph ofthe plurality of training document paragraphs, wherein: (a) theparagraph text vector for each training document paragraph comprises anembedding for each training document paragraph sentence word of theplurality of training document paragraph sentence words corresponding toeach training document paragraph sentence of the plurality of trainingdocument paragraph sentences corresponding to the training documentparagraph; (b) the dictionary feature vector for each training documentparagraph is obtained by: (i) defining an initial dictionary featurevector with a plurality of predefined keywords, and (ii) assigning aBoolean value for each predefined keyword of the plurality of predefinedkeywords defined in the initial dictionary feature vector, based onpresence of the predefined keyword in the training document paragraph;and (c) the section header feature vector for each training documentparagraph of the plurality of training document paragraphs, is obtainedby: (i) defining an initial section header feature vector with aplurality of predefined section headers, and (ii) assigning the Booleanvalue for each predefined section header of the plurality of predefinedsection headers defined in the initial section header feature vector,based on matching of the predefined section header with the sectionheader of the training document paragraph; and training a firstbi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) network with: (i) (a) theparagraph text vector, (b) the dictionary feature vector, and (c) thesection header feature vector, for each training document paragraph, ata time, of the plurality of training document paragraphs, and (ii) theannotation class for each training document paragraph of the pluralityof training document paragraphs, to obtain the trained fabricationprocedure paragraph classification model, wherein training the firstBiLSTM network with each training document paragraph comprises: passingthe paragraph text vector corresponding to the training documentparagraph, as an input to a bi-directional long short term memory(BiLSTM) layer of the first BiLSTM network, to learn a hidden state of afirst training document paragraph sentence word and the hidden state ofa last training document paragraph sentence word, present in thetraining document paragraph; concatenating the dictionary feature vectorand the section header feature vector, corresponding to the trainingdocument paragraph, with the hidden state of the first training documentparagraph sentence word and the hidden state of the last trainingdocument paragraph sentence word, present in the training documentparagraph, to obtain a concatenated feature vector of the trainingdocument paragraph; passing the concatenated feature vector of thetraining document paragraph to a soft-max layer of the first BiLSTMnetwork to obtain a predicted probability value of the training documentparagraph; minimizing a binary cross-entropy loss function of the firstBiLSTM network, defined between the (i) the predicted probability valueof the training document paragraph, and (ii) an actual probability valueof the training document paragraph, wherein the actual probability valueof the training document paragraph is defined from the annotation classcorresponding to the training document paragraph; and optimizing weightsof the first BiLSTM network, based on the binary cross-entropy lossfunction of the first BiLSTM network.
 4. The method of claim 1, whereinidentifying the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs out of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, by the trainedfabrication procedure paragraph classification model, using the sectionheader for each pre-processed document paragraph of the plurality ofpre-processed document paragraphs, further comprises: obtaining: (a) aparagraph text vector, (b) a dictionary feature vector, and (c) asection header feature vector, for each pre-processed document paragraphof the plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, wherein: (a) theparagraph text vector for each pre-processed document paragraphcomprises an embedding for each pre-processed paragraph sentence word ofthe plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentence words corresponding toeach pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences corresponding to the pre-processed documentparagraph; (b) the dictionary feature vector for each pre-processeddocument paragraph is obtained by: (i) defining an initial dictionaryfeature vector with a plurality of predefined keywords, and (ii)assigning a Boolean value for each predefined keyword of the pluralityof predefined keywords defined in the initial dictionary feature vector,based on presence of the predefined keyword in the pre-processeddocument paragraph; and (c) the section header feature vector for eachpre-processed document paragraph is obtained by: (i) defining an initialsection header feature vector with a plurality of predefined sectionheaders, and (ii) assigning the Boolean value for each predefinedsection header of the plurality of predefined section headers defined inthe initial section header feature vector, based on matching of thepredefined section header with the section header of the pre-processeddocument paragraph; passing: (a) the paragraph text vector, (b) thedictionary feature vector, and (c) the section header feature vector,for each pre-processed document paragraph of the plurality ofpre-processed document paragraphs, to the trained fabrication procedureparagraph classification model, to obtain a predicted probability valuefor each pre-processed document paragraph of the plurality ofpre-processed document paragraphs; and identifying the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs out of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, based on the predicted probability valuecorresponding to each pre-processed document paragraph of the pluralityof pre-processed document paragraphs.
 5. The method of claim 1, whereinthe trained named entity identification model is obtained by: receiving(i) a plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs, whereineach training fabrication procedure paragraph comprises a plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentences, and each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence comprises a plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words, (ii) an entityannotation for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceword of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence words present in each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence of each training fabrication procedure paragraph of theplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs; obtaining: (a) agazetteer feature vector, (b) a casing feature vector, (c) a part ofspeech (PoS) feature vector, (d) a character embedding vector, and (e) aword embedding, for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence words present in each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of each training fabrication procedure paragraph ofthe plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs, wherein: (a)the gazetteer feature vector for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word, is obtained by: (i) defining an initialgazetteer feature vector with a plurality of predefined concepts, and(ii) assigning a Boolean value for each predefined concept of theplurality of predefined concepts defined in the initial gazetteerfeature vector, based on association of the predefined concept with thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word; (b) the casingfeature vector for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word is a predefined casing type of one or more predefinedcasing types, associated with the training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word; (c) the PoS feature vector for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word is a predefined PoS typeof one or more predefined PoS types, associated with the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word; (d) the characterembedding vector for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word is an array of character embeddings associated with eachcharacter present in the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word; and (e) the word embedding for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word is an embedding of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word; and training a secondbi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) network with (i) (a) thegazetteer feature vector, (b) the casing feature vector, (c) the part ofspeech (PoS) feature vector, (d) the character embedding vector, and (e)the word embedding, for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence words present in each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence, at a time, of each training fabrication procedureparagraph of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs,and (ii) the entity annotation for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence words present in each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence of each training fabrication procedureparagraph of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs,to obtain the trained named entity identification model, whereintraining the second BiLSTM network with each training fabricationprocedure paragraph comprises: concatenating (a) the gazetteer featurevector, (b) the casing feature vector, (c) the part of speech (PoS)feature vector, (d) the character embedding vector, and (e) the wordembedding, corresponding to each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word, to obtain a concatenated feature vector foreach training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of theplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence wordspresent in each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph; passing the concatenatedfeature vector for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence words present in each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of the training fabrication procedure paragraph, to abi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) layer of the secondBiLSTM network, to learn a hidden state for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word of the plurality of trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present in each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the training fabricationprocedure paragraph; passing the hidden state for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of the plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present in eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph, to a conditional random field (CRF)layer of the second BiLSTM network, to obtain a predicted probabilitydistribution, for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceof the training fabrication procedure paragraph; maximizing aprobability function of the second BiLSTM network, defined based on (i)the predicted probability distribution, for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence of the training fabrication procedureparagraph, and (i) an actual probability distribution for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the training fabricationprocedure paragraph, wherein the actual probability distribution foreach training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph, is defined from the entity annotationfor each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of theplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence wordspresent in each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph; and optimizing weights of thesecond BiLSTM network, based on the probability function of the secondBiLSTM network.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the one ormore entities out of the plurality of entities, for each pre-processedparagraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, using the trained named entityidentification model, further comprises; obtaining: (a) a gazetteerfeature vector, (b) a casing feature vector, (c) a part of speech (PoS)feature vector, (d) a character embedding vector, and (e) a wordembedding, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence word of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentence words present in eachpre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, wherein: (a) thegazetteer feature vector for each pre-processed paragraph sentence word,is obtained by: (i) defining an initial gazetteer feature vector with aplurality of predefined concepts, and (ii) assigning a Boolean value foreach predefined concept of the plurality of predefined concepts definedin the initial gazetteer feature vector, based on association of thepredefined concept with the pre-processed paragraph sentence word; (b)the casing feature vector for each pre-processed paragraph sentence wordis a predefined casing type of one or more predefined casing types,associated with the pre-processed paragraph sentence word; (c) the PoSfeature vector for each pre-processed paragraph sentence word is apredefined PoS type of one or more predefined PoS types, associated withthe pre-processed paragraph sentence word; (d) the character embeddingvector for pre-processed paragraph sentence word is an array ofcharacter embeddings associated with each character present in thepre-processed paragraph sentence word; and (e) the word embedding foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence word is an embedding of thepre-processed paragraph sentence word; concatenating (a) the gazetteerfeature vector, (b) the casing feature vector, (c) the part of speech(PoS) feature vector, (d) the character embedding vector, and (e) theword embedding, corresponding to each pre-processed paragraph sentenceword to obtain a concatenated feature vector for each pre-processedparagraph sentence word of the plurality of each pre-processed paragraphsentence words present in each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedureparagraphs; passing the concatenated feature vector for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence word of the plurality of eachpre-processed paragraph sentence words present in each pre-processedparagraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, to the trained named entityidentification model, to obtain a predicted probability distribution foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedureparagraph; and identifying the one or more entities out of the pluralityof entities, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the pluralityof pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,based on the predicted probability distribution for each pre-processedparagraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph.
 7. The method ofclaim 1, wherein the trained relation identification model is obtainedby: receiving (i) one or more entities identified for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of a plurality of trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentences associated with each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraphs; (ii) a predefined relation annotation out of thefirst set of predefined relation annotations, for each predefined entitypair out of the one or more entities identified for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the plurality of trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentences associated with each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraphs; extracting (i) one or more entity-level featurevectors and (ii) one or more entity-pair-level feature vectors, for eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentences associated with eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph, wherein (i) the one or moreentity-level feature vectors for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence, comprises a first set of features associated witheach predefined entity of the one or more entities identified for thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence, and (ii) the one ormore entity-pair-level feature vectors for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence, comprises a second set of featuresassociated with each predefined entity pair out of the one or moreentities identified for the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence; and training a hybrid neural network with: (i) one or moreentity-level feature vectors and (ii) one or more entity-pair-levelfeature vectors, for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentences associated with each training fabrication procedure paragraph,to obtain the trained relation identification model, wherein trainingthe hybrid neural network for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence, comprises: passing, (i) the one or more entity-levelfeature vectors and (ii) the one or more entity-pair-level featurevectors, for the training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence, tothe hybrid neural network, to obtain a predicted probabilitydistribution for each predefined entity pair out of the one or moreentities identified for the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence; minimizing a categorical cross-entropy loss function of thehybrid neural network, defined between (i) the predicted probabilitydistribution for each predefined entity pair out of the one or moreentities identified for the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence, and (ii) an actual probability distribution for eachpredefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identified forthe training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence, wherein theactual probability distribution for each predefined entity pair isdefined from the predefined relation annotation corresponding to thepredefined entity pair; and optimizing weights of the hybrid neuralnetwork, based on the categorical cross-entropy loss function of thehybrid neural network.
 8. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying theone or more first predefined relations out of the first set ofpredefined relations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedureparagraphs, by the trained relation identification model, using the oneor more entities identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence,further comprises: extracting (i) one or more entity-level featurevectors and (ii) one or more entity-pair-level feature vectors, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, wherein (i) the oneor more entity-level feature vectors for each pre-processed paragraphsentence, comprises a first set of features associated with eachpredefined entity of the one or more entities identified for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence, and (ii) the one or moreentity-pair-level feature vectors for each pre-processed paragraphsentence, comprises a second set of features associated with eachpredefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identified forthe pre-processed paragraph sentence; passing, (i) the one or moreentity-level feature vectors and (ii) the one or more entity-pair-levelfeature vectors, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph, to the trained relationidentification model, to obtain a predicted probability distribution foreach predefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identifiedfor each pre-processed paragraph sentence; and identifying the one ormore first predefined relations out of the first set of predefinedrelations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph, based on the predicted probability distribution foreach predefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identifiedfor the pre-processed paragraph sentence.
 9. A system comprising: amemory storing instructions; one or more Input/Output (I/O) interfaces;and one or more hardware processors coupled to the memory via the one ormore I/O interfaces, wherein the one or more hardware processors areconfigured by the instructions to: receive (i) a device categoryassociated with a device fabrication, (ii) one or more devicefabrication knowledge documents associated with the device category froma device fabrication knowledge repository, wherein each devicefabrication knowledge document comprises a plurality of documentparagraphs, wherein each document paragraph comprises one or moreparagraph sentences, and each paragraph sentence comprises a pluralityof paragraph sentence words; pre-process each device fabricationknowledge document of the one or more device fabrication knowledgedocuments, to obtain: (i) a plurality of pre-processed documentparagraphs, in a plain text format, (ii) a section header for eachpre-processed document paragraph of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, wherein each pre-processed document paragraphcomprises a plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences, and whereineach pre-processed paragraph sentence comprises a plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentence words; identify one or more fabricationprocedure paragraphs out of the plurality of pre-processed documentparagraphs, by a trained fabrication procedure paragraph classificationmodel, using the section header for each pre-processed documentparagraph of the plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, whereineach pre-processed document paragraph of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs is a fabrication procedure paragraph, if thepre-processed document paragraph comprises information related to afabrication procedure; identify one or more entities, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, by a trained namedentity identification model, wherein the plurality of entities areassociated with a plurality of predefined concepts related to thefabrication procedure; identify (i) one or more first predefinedrelations out of a first set of predefined relations, and (ii) one ormore second predefined relations out of a second set of predefinedrelations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,by (i) a trained relation identification model, and (ii) a set ofpredefined pattern expressions, respectively, using the one or moreentities identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence; identifydevice fabrication procedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph ofthe one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, by a rule basedunsupervised algorithm, using the one or more entities identified foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedureparagraph, wherein the device fabrication procedure for each fabricationprocedure paragraph, comprises a sequence of operations; and generate anoperation sequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedureparagraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, using (i)the one or more entities identified for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, (ii) (a) the one or more firstpredefined relations out of the first set of predefined relations, and(b) the one or more second predefined relations out of the second set ofpredefined relations, identified for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, and (iii) the device fabricationprocedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, using a graph database tool.
 10. Thesystem of claim 9, wherein the one or more hardware processors arefurther configured to build an analytical platform to enable the devicefabrication, using the operation sequence knowledge graph for eachfabrication procedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedureparagraphs, in a graph search engine.
 11. The system of claim 9, whereinthe one or more hardware processors are configured to obtain the trainedfabrication procedure paragraph classification model, by: receiving (i)a plurality of training document paragraphs associated with the devicecategory, in the plain text format, (ii) the section header for eachtraining document paragraph of the plurality of training documentparagraphs, and (iii) an annotation class for each training documentparagraph of the plurality of training document paragraphs, wherein eachtraining document paragraph comprises a plurality of training documentparagraph sentences, and each training document paragraph sentencecomprises a plurality of training document paragraph sentence words, andwherein the annotation class for each training document paragraph is oneof: (a) the fabrication procedure paragraph, and (b) a non-fabricationprocedure paragraph; obtaining: (a) a paragraph text vector, (b) adictionary feature vector, and (c) a section header feature vector, foreach training document paragraph of the plurality of training documentparagraphs, wherein: (a) the paragraph text vector for each trainingdocument paragraph comprises an embedding for each training documentparagraph sentence word of the plurality of training document paragraphsentence words corresponding to each training document paragraphsentence of the plurality of training document paragraph sentencescorresponding to the training document paragraph; (b) the dictionaryfeature vector for each training document paragraph is obtained by: (i)defining an initial dictionary feature vector with a plurality ofpredefined keywords, and (ii) assigning a Boolean value for eachpredefined keyword of the plurality of predefined keywords defined inthe initial dictionary feature vector, based on presence of thepredefined keyword in the training document paragraph; and (c) thesection header feature vector for each training document paragraph ofthe plurality of training document paragraphs, is obtained by: (i)defining an initial section header feature vector with a plurality ofpredefined section headers, and (ii) assigning the Boolean value foreach predefined section header of the plurality of predefined sectionheaders defined in the initial section header feature vector, based onmatching of the predefined section header with the section header of thetraining document paragraph; and training a first bi-directional longshort term memory (BiLSTM) network with: (i) (a) the paragraph textvector, (b) the dictionary feature vector, and (c) the section headerfeature vector, for each training document paragraph, at a time, of theplurality of training document paragraphs, and (ii) the annotation classfor each training document paragraph of the plurality of trainingdocument paragraphs, to obtain the trained fabrication procedureparagraph classification model, wherein training the first BiLSTMnetwork with each training document paragraph comprises: passing theparagraph text vector corresponding to the training document paragraph,as an input to a bi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) layer ofthe first BiLSTM network, to learn a hidden state of a first trainingdocument paragraph sentence word and the hidden state of a last trainingdocument paragraph sentence word, present in the training documentparagraph; concatenating the dictionary feature vector and the sectionheader feature vector, corresponding to the training document paragraph,with the hidden state of the first training document paragraph sentenceword and the hidden state of the last training document paragraphsentence word, present in the training document paragraph, to obtain aconcatenated feature vector of the training document paragraph; passingthe concatenated feature vector of the training document paragraph to asoft-max layer of the first BiLSTM network to obtain a predictedprobability value of the training document paragraph; minimizing abinary cross-entropy loss function of the first BiLSTM network, definedbetween the (i) the predicted probability value of the training documentparagraph, and (ii) an actual probability value of the training documentparagraph, wherein the actual probability value of the training documentparagraph is defined from the annotation class corresponding to thetraining document paragraph; and optimizing weights of the first BiLSTMnetwork, based on the binary cross-entropy loss function of the firstBiLSTM network.
 12. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or morehardware processors are configured to identify the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs out of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, by the trained fabrication procedure paragraphclassification model, using the section header for each pre-processeddocument paragraph of the plurality of pre-processed documentparagraphs, by: obtaining: (a) a paragraph text vector, (b) a dictionaryfeature vector, and (c) a section header feature vector, for eachpre-processed document paragraph of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, wherein: (a) the paragraph text vector for eachpre-processed document paragraph comprises an embedding for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence word of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentence words corresponding to each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencescorresponding to the pre-processed document paragraph; (b) thedictionary feature vector for each pre-processed document paragraph isobtained by: (i) defining an initial dictionary feature vector with aplurality of predefined keywords, and (ii) assigning a Boolean value foreach predefined keyword of the plurality of predefined keywords definedin the initial dictionary feature vector, based on presence of thepredefined keyword in the pre-processed document paragraph; and (c) thesection header feature vector for each pre-processed document paragraphis obtained by: (i) defining an initial section header feature vectorwith a plurality of predefined section headers, and (ii) assigning theBoolean value for each predefined section header of the plurality ofpredefined section headers defined in the initial section header featurevector, based on matching of the predefined section header with thesection header of the pre-processed document paragraph; passing: (a) theparagraph text vector, (b) the dictionary feature vector, and (c) thesection header feature vector, for each pre-processed document paragraphof the plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, to the trainedfabrication procedure paragraph classification model, to obtain apredicted probability value for each pre-processed document paragraph ofthe plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs; and identifying theone or more fabrication procedure paragraphs out of the plurality ofpre-processed document paragraphs, based on the predicted probabilityvalue corresponding to each pre-processed document paragraph of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs.
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The system of claim9, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured to obtainthe trained named entity identification model, by: receiving (i) aplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs, wherein eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph comprises a plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentences, and each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence comprises a plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words, (ii) an entityannotation for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceword of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence words present in each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence of each training fabrication procedure paragraph of theplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs; obtaining: (a) agazetteer feature vector, (b) a casing feature vector, (c) a part ofspeech (PoS) feature vector, (d) a character embedding vector, and (e) aword embedding, for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence words present in each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of each training fabrication procedure paragraph ofthe plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs, wherein: (a)the gazetteer feature vector for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word, is obtained by: (i) defining an initialgazetteer feature vector with a plurality of predefined concepts, and(ii) assigning a Boolean value for each predefined concept of theplurality of predefined concepts defined in the initial gazetteerfeature vector, based on association of the predefined concept with thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word; (b) the casingfeature vector for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word is a predefined casing type of one or more predefinedcasing types, associated with the training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word; (c) the PoS feature vector for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word is a predefined PoS typeof one or more predefined PoS types, associated with the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word; (d) the characterembedding vector for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word is an array of character embeddings associated with eachcharacter present in the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word; and (e) the word embedding for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word is an embedding of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word; and training a secondbi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) network with (i) (a) thegazetteer feature vector, (b) the casing feature vector, (c) the part ofspeech (PoS) feature vector, (d) the character embedding vector, and (e)the word embedding, for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence words present in each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence, at a time, of each training fabrication procedureparagraph of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs,and (ii) the entity annotation for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence words present in each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence of each training fabrication procedureparagraph of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs,to obtain the trained named entity identification model, whereintraining the second BiLSTM network with each training fabricationprocedure paragraph comprises: concatenating (a) the gazetteer featurevector, (b) the casing feature vector, (c) the part of speech (PoS)feature vector, (d) the character embedding vector, and (e) the wordembedding, corresponding to each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence word, to obtain a concatenated feature vector foreach training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of theplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence wordspresent in each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph; passing the concatenatedfeature vector for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence word of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence words present in each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of the training fabrication procedure paragraph, to abi-directional long short term memory (BiLSTM) layer of the secondBiLSTM network, to learn a hidden state for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence word of the plurality of trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present in each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the training fabricationprocedure paragraph; passing the hidden state for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of the plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence words present in eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph, to a conditional random field (CRF)layer of the second BiLSTM network, to obtain a predicted probabilitydistribution, for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentenceof the training fabrication procedure paragraph; maximizing aprobability function of the second BiLSTM network, defined based on (i)the predicted probability distribution, for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence of the training fabrication procedureparagraph, and (i) an actual probability distribution for each trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the training fabricationprocedure paragraph, wherein the actual probability distribution foreach training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph, is defined from the entity annotationfor each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence word of theplurality of training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence wordspresent in each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of thetraining fabrication procedure paragraph; and optimizing weights of thesecond BiLSTM network, based on the probability function of the secondBiLSTM network.
 14. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or morehardware processors are configured to identify the one or more entitiesout of the plurality of entities, for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, using the trained named entityidentification model, by; obtaining: (a) a gazetteer feature vector, (b)a casing feature vector, (c) a part of speech (PoS) feature vector, (d)a character embedding vector, and (e) a word embedding, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence word of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentence words present in each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, wherein: (a) the gazetteer featurevector for each pre-processed paragraph sentence word, is obtained by:(i) defining an initial gazetteer feature vector with a plurality ofpredefined concepts, and (ii) assigning a Boolean value for eachpredefined concept of the plurality of predefined concepts defined inthe initial gazetteer feature vector, based on association of thepredefined concept with the pre-processed paragraph sentence word; (b)the casing feature vector for each pre-processed paragraph sentence wordis a predefined casing type of one or more predefined casing types,associated with the pre-processed paragraph sentence word; (c) the PoSfeature vector for each pre-processed paragraph sentence word is apredefined PoS type of one or more predefined PoS types, associated withthe pre-processed paragraph sentence word; (d) the character embeddingvector for pre-processed paragraph sentence word is an array ofcharacter embeddings associated with each character present in thepre-processed paragraph sentence word; and (e) the word embedding foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence word is an embedding of thepre-processed paragraph sentence word; concatenating (a) the gazetteerfeature vector, (b) the casing feature vector, (c) the part of speech(PoS) feature vector, (d) the character embedding vector, and (e) theword embedding, corresponding to each pre-processed paragraph sentenceword to obtain a concatenated feature vector for each pre-processedparagraph sentence word of the plurality of each pre-processed paragraphsentence words present in each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachfabrication procedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedureparagraphs; passing the concatenated feature vector for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence word of the plurality of eachpre-processed paragraph sentence words present in each pre-processedparagraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, to the trained named entityidentification model, to obtain a predicted probability distribution foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedureparagraph; and identifying the one or more entities out of the pluralityof entities, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the pluralityof pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,based on the predicted probability distribution for each pre-processedparagraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph.
 15. The system ofclaim 9, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured toobtain the trained relation identification model, by: receiving (i) oneor more entities identified for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of a plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraph sentences associated with each training fabrication procedureparagraph of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs;(ii) a predefined relation annotation out of the first set of predefinedrelation annotations, for each predefined entity pair out of the one ormore entities identified for each training fabrication procedureparagraph sentence of the plurality of training fabrication procedureparagraph sentences associated with each training fabrication procedureparagraph of the plurality of training fabrication procedure paragraphs;extracting (i) one or more entity-level feature vectors and (ii) one ormore entity-pair-level feature vectors, for each training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence of the plurality of training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentences associated with each training fabricationprocedure paragraph, wherein (i) the one or more entity-level featurevectors for each training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence,comprises a first set of features associated with each predefined entityof the one or more entities identified for the training fabricationprocedure paragraph sentence, and (ii) the one or more entity-pair-levelfeature vectors for each training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence, comprises a second set of features associated with eachpredefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identified forthe training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence; and training ahybrid neural network with: (i) one or more entity-level feature vectorsand (ii) one or more entity-pair-level feature vectors, for eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentence of the plurality oftraining fabrication procedure paragraph sentences associated with eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph, to obtain the trained relationidentification model, wherein training the hybrid neural network foreach training fabrication procedure paragraph sentence, comprises:passing, (i) the one or more entity-level feature vectors and (ii) theone or more entity-pair-level feature vectors, for the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence, to the hybrid neural network,to obtain a predicted probability distribution for each predefinedentity pair out of the one or more entities identified for the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence; minimizing a categoricalcross-entropy loss function of the hybrid neural network, definedbetween (i) the predicted probability distribution for each predefinedentity pair out of the one or more entities identified for the trainingfabrication procedure paragraph sentence, and (ii) an actual probabilitydistribution for each predefined entity pair out of the one or moreentities identified for the training fabrication procedure paragraphsentence, wherein the actual probability distribution for eachpredefined entity pair is defined from the predefined relationannotation corresponding to the predefined entity pair; and optimizingweights of the hybrid neural network, based on the categoricalcross-entropy loss function of the hybrid neural network.
 16. The systemof claim 9, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configuredto identify the one or more first predefined relations out of the firstset of predefined relations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentenceof the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated witheach fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or more fabricationprocedure paragraphs, by the trained relation identification model,using the one or more entities identified for each pre-processedparagraph sentence, by: extracting (i) one or more entity-level featurevectors and (ii) one or more entity-pair-level feature vectors, for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedure paragraphof the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, wherein (i) the oneor more entity-level feature vectors for each pre-processed paragraphsentence, comprises a first set of features associated with eachpredefined entity of the one or more entities identified for eachpre-processed paragraph sentence, and (ii) the one or moreentity-pair-level feature vectors for each pre-processed paragraphsentence, comprises a second set of features associated with eachpredefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identified forthe pre-processed paragraph sentence; passing, (i) the one or moreentity-level feature vectors and (ii) the one or more entity-pair-levelfeature vectors, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of theplurality of pre-processed paragraph sentences associated with eachtraining fabrication procedure paragraph, to the trained relationidentification model, to obtain a predicted probability distribution foreach predefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identifiedfor each pre-processed paragraph sentence; and identifying the one ormore first predefined relations out of the first set of predefinedrelations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph, based on the predicted probability distribution foreach predefined entity pair out of the one or more entities identifiedfor the pre-processed paragraph sentence.
 17. A computer program productcomprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having a computerreadable program embodied therein, wherein the computer readableprogram, when executed on a computing device, causes the computingdevice to: receive (i) a device category associated with a devicefabrication, (ii) one or more device fabrication knowledge documentsassociated with the device category from a device fabrication knowledgerepository, wherein each device fabrication knowledge document comprisesa plurality of document paragraphs, wherein each document paragraphcomprises one or more paragraph sentences, and each paragraph sentencecomprises a plurality of paragraph sentence words; pre-process eachdevice fabrication knowledge document of the one or more devicefabrication knowledge documents, to obtain: (i) a plurality ofpre-processed document paragraphs, in a plain text format, (ii) asection header for each pre-processed document paragraph of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, wherein eachpre-processed document paragraph comprises a plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences, and wherein each pre-processed paragraph sentencecomprises a plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentence words;identify one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs out of theplurality of pre-processed document paragraphs, by a trained fabricationprocedure paragraph classification model, using the section header foreach pre-processed document paragraph of the plurality of pre-processeddocument paragraphs, wherein each pre-processed document paragraph ofthe plurality of pre-processed document paragraphs is a fabricationprocedure paragraph, if the pre-processed document paragraph comprisesinformation related to a fabrication procedure; identify one or moreentities, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,by a trained named entity identification model, wherein the plurality ofentities are associated with a plurality of predefined concepts relatedto the fabrication procedure; identify (i) one or more first predefinedrelations out of a first set of predefined relations, and (ii) one ormore second predefined relations out of a second set of predefinedrelations, for each pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality ofpre-processed paragraph sentences associated with each fabricationprocedure paragraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs,by (i) a trained relation identification model, and (ii) a set ofpredefined pattern expressions, respectively, using the one or moreentities identified for each pre-processed paragraph sentence; identifydevice fabrication procedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph ofthe one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, by a rule basedunsupervised algorithm, using the one or more entities identified foreach pre-processed paragraph sentence of the plurality of pre-processedparagraph sentences associated with each fabrication procedureparagraph, wherein the device fabrication procedure for each fabricationprocedure paragraph, comprises a sequence of operations; generate anoperation sequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedureparagraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, using (i)the one or more entities identified for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, (ii) (a) the one or more firstpredefined relations out of the first set of predefined relations, and(b) the one or more second predefined relations out of the second set ofpredefined relations, identified for each pre-processed paragraphsentence of the plurality of pre-processed paragraph sentencesassociated with each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, and (iii) the device fabricationprocedure for each fabrication procedure paragraph of the one or morefabrication procedure paragraphs, using a graph database tool; and buildan analytical platform to enable the device fabrication, using theoperation sequence knowledge graph for each fabrication procedureparagraph of the one or more fabrication procedure paragraphs, in agraph search engine.